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Launching things into the sun takes a lot of energy and complex calculations. It's interestingly easier to send something out of the solar system than into the sun
To be perfectly honest, I'm not actually worried about whether or not he makes it to the sun.
Aren't the calculations easy? The energy is insane though.
Oh now you want to risk these unstable geniuses to be the first things aliens find about earth?