The Expanse protomolecule. Tough little bugger isn't it?

[Gingerbread Demon]

I'm rewatching the show again, this is my 2nd time around. I've gone from the start all over again someone one the Roci made the suggestion of shooting their sample of the molecule into the Sun. I know they made the comment off the cuff and all while the rest of the crew is talking but it did make me wonder, how tough is this thing?

Could it survive being thrown into the Sun or even turn that to its advantage

Someone in my rewatch thread said try the books and I tried but it just didn't do it for me sorry guys. I think the show was good enough.

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

One thing is certain: if they throw it into the Sun, no one's getting it back out again.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

One thing is certain: if they throw it into the Sun, no one's getting it back out again.

Gone forever

 

[Timelord79 (he/him)]

Can they even throw something into the sun? The Expanse prides itself on realistic physics, and getting something to fall into the sun is extremely difficult. It took that probe of ours years and many very eccentric orbits to get as close as it has.

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

I think the plan with the solar probe was to get it into a close enough orbit for it to take readings. If you want to launch something into the Sun I'm pretty sure you just point in the right direction and send it on its way.

 

[David cgc]

Can they even throw something into the sun? The Expanse prides itself on realistic physics, and getting something to fall into the sun is extremely difficult. It took that probe of ours years and many very eccentric orbits to get as close as it has.

The setting’s high-efficiency fusion drives make orbital mechanics pretty much obsolete. Even so, the Sun is one of the harder places to get to (because everything else is spinning around it, so you have to fight that centrifugal force to actually hit it), but they could probably manage it.

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

I admit, I didn't think of that when I made my last reply, I'm too used to science fiction space travel. Though like you say, The Expanse does have those sci-fi engines.