| ▲ | myrmidon an hour ago | |
Adding to this: Those 190km/s of the Parker solar probe were, crucially, periapsis speed. This is a bit like bouncing a rubber ball from a building, measuring its speed at ground level and then going: "Given our fastest achieved speed, we expect to hit the cloud level in <10s". ~200km/s sustained speed is already insanely optimistic for anything we could realistically build in the next half century, so your position is even more ironclad than it looks at first glance. | ||