Daring Solar Mission Will Get Hot Enough to Cook Hot Dogs Comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, in his alter ego Ali G, asked Buzz Aldrin if astronauts had ever gone to the sun. “It’s too hot,” Aldrin replied sardonically. “What if we were to go during the winter?” Cohen persisted. Though we have hurtled spacecraft into the frigid frontiers of the solar system, where water would freeze rock solid in seconds, we have never ventured closer to the seething sun than the distance of the planet Mercury. keep reading

Daring Solar Mission Will Get Hot Enough to Cook Hot Dogs

Comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, in his alter ego Ali G, asked Buzz Aldrin if astronauts had ever gone to the sun. “It’s too hot,” Aldrin replied sardonically. “What if we were to go during the winter?” Cohen persisted.

Though we have hurtled spacecraft into the frigid frontiers of the solar system, where water would freeze rock solid in seconds, we have never ventured closer to the seething sun than the distance of the planet Mercury.

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