Can you land on the sun?

[ckimstafu]

I'm just asking out of curiosity. Can you land on the sun, or will it burn you before you get to close? (or is it just IMPOSSIBLE?)

[vexx32]

Thread moved to Gameplay Questions and Tutorials.

As far as I remember, there's a certain altitude where the game will just destroy your craft and say that it overheated. Not sure exactly how close you can get, though.

[SRV Ron]

Nope;

[staf7]

Nope;

you do notice you were heading at 90'000 M/s even if you were able to you still would have blown up

[DevoidLight]

you do notice you were heading at 90'000 M/s even if you were able to you still would have blown up

The point of the experiment was probably to see whether you could actually reach the surface at all.

[Sirine]

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/57133-Landed-on-Sun

My craft end-up on the surface of Sun. Unintentionally.

[BFGfreak]

It would appear that you cannot land on a giant ball of nuclear fusion for some strange reason.

[700NitroXpress]

I had the debug menu running with, infinite fuel, unbreakable joints, and the lander was coming down at 100 m/s and it still exploded. I just wish that the explosion altitude was 1337 and not some number in the 1200's.

[Fr8monkey]

You guys are doing it wrong. You can land on the sun... you just have to do it at night.

[Mr Shifty]

You guys are doing it wrong. You can land on the sun... you just have to do it at night.

100% pure awesome. Plus one internets.

[A1catraz]

You guys are doing it wrong. You can land on the sun... you just have to do it at night.

You realize that when the sun "sets" it isn't moving, the Earth is moving. The sun is always burning, Fr8monkey; go back to school.

[Smidge204]

You realize that when the sun "sets" it isn't moving, the Earth is moving. The sun is always burning, Fr8monkey; go back to school.

This is what "not getting the joke" looks like

It's a pretty old joke, too!

=Smidge=

[AnatolyVasserman]

Maybe making an actual sun interactions mechanics would be nice.

[WafflesToo]

You realize that when the sun "sets" it isn't moving, the Earth is moving. The sun is always burning, Fr8monkey; go back to school.

Thank you very much for proving that Poe's law is still in effect. I was a little worried there.

[xxjetterxx]

Crafts need to just turn into goop and fall to the sun. Get to work, Squad!

[Jimbo Jambo]

You guys are doing it wrong. You can land on the sun... you just have to do it at night.

Might also work during a solar eclipse.

[thunderstar]

you do notice you were heading at 90'000 M/s even if you were able to you still would have blown up

well, make a ship capable of killing that velocity and we'll see

[CarlosMaximus]

Looks like the North Koreans beat us all to it... http://www.tweaktown.com/news/35032/north-korea-confirms-it-has-landed-a-man-on-the-sun/index.html

:cool:

[RSwordsman]

You realize that when the sun "sets" it isn't moving, the Earth is moving. The sun is always burning, Fr8monkey; go back to school.

You do realize you're trying to educate a fan of a space game here, right?

I think it would be awesome if your ship could be built to be buoyant enough to float on the sun's corona.

[Cerberus738]

Looks like the North Koreans beat us all to it... http://www.tweaktown.com/news/35032/north-korea-confirms-it-has-landed-a-man-on-the-sun/index.html

:cool:

ha ha ha ah aha ha ha way to go north Korea!! and only took 18 hours!

[Lightning22]

Looks like the North Koreans beat us all to it... http://www.tweaktown.com/news/35032/north-korea-confirms-it-has-landed-a-man-on-the-sun/index.html

:cool:

So how much delta V would you need to manage anything even close to that in KSP, without something like the interstellar mod?

[WafflesToo]

So how much delta V would you need to manage anything even close to that in KSP, without something like the interstellar mod?

Every sun-diver I've ever build required about 8km/s of dV and it was a 16-day trip (one way of course). I haven't got any earthly idea how much power it would take to cut the travel time down to 18-hours in KSP; let alone the ultimate realism mod

[xtremespino]

No, its the one thing that real life and KSP have in common

[WafflesToo]

No, its the one thing that real life and KSP have in common

Oh come on, don't be such a stick-in-the-mud. You can land on the sun IRL... once

[xtremespino]

Oh come on, don't be such a stick-in-the-mud. You can land on the sun IRL... once

You could do a sacrificial landing, I guess.