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Looked up how close could we get to the sun; The Space shuttle reinforced carbon-carbon heat shield is designed to withstand temperatures of up to 4,700°, if the shield wrapped the entire shuttle, it could fly within 1.3 million miles of the sun. SaturnVenus is 886107 million miles from the Sun. Surely getting 68082 times closer would change this calculation; based on surface area enclosed at 1.3M miles and 886M107M miles, hydrogen concentration should be ~316 million~942 thousand x greater at 1.3M. Assuming it can be transported, instead of 3/4 million years, you'd be looking at less than a dayabout 10 months, not 750,000 years.

Note even if we position the Ramjets 10M miles from the sunAnd that is with existing materials, used on the density should increase 700Space Shuttle. If you take some minor liberties with future shielding technology,000x and you could probably get the collection time would be reducedRam jets much closer to about 13 monthsthe Sun.

Looked up how close could we get to the sun; The Space shuttle reinforced carbon-carbon heat shield is designed to withstand temperatures of up to 4,700°, if the shield wrapped the entire shuttle, it could fly within 1.3 million miles of the sun. Saturn is 886 million miles from the Sun. Surely getting 680 times closer would change this calculation; based on surface area enclosed at 1.3M miles and 886M miles, hydrogen concentration should be ~316 million x greater at 1.3M. Assuming it can be transported, instead of 3/4 million years, you'd be looking at less than a day, not 750,000 years.

Note even if we position the Ramjets 10M miles from the sun, the density should increase 700,000x and the collection time would be reduced to about 13 months.

Looked up how close could we get to the sun; The Space shuttle reinforced carbon-carbon heat shield is designed to withstand temperatures of up to 4,700°, if the shield wrapped the entire shuttle, it could fly within 1.3 million miles of the sun. Venus is 107 million miles from the Sun. Surely getting 82 times closer would change this calculation; based on surface area enclosed at 1.3M miles and 107M miles, hydrogen concentration should be ~942 thousand x greater at 1.3M. Assuming it can be transported, instead of 3/4 million years, you'd be looking at about 10 months, not 750,000 years.

And that is with existing materials, used on the Space Shuttle. If you take some minor liberties with future shielding technology, you could probably get the Ram jets much closer to the Sun.

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Looked up how close could we get to the sun; The Space shuttle reinforced carbon-carbon heat shield is designed to withstand temperatures of up to 4,700°, if the shield wrapped the entire shuttle, it could fly within 1.3 million miles of the sun. Saturn is 886 million miles from the Sun. Surely getting 680 times closer would change this calculation; based on surface area enclosed at 1.3M miles and 886M miles, hydrogen concentration should be ~316 million x greater at 1.3M. Assuming it can be transported, instead of 3/4 million years, you'd be looking at less than a day, not 750,000 years.

Note even if we position the Ramjets 10M miles from the sun, the density should increase 700,000x and the collection time would be reduced to about 13 months.

Looked up how close could we get to the sun; The Space shuttle reinforced carbon-carbon heat shield is designed to withstand temperatures of up to 4,700°, if the shield wrapped the entire shuttle, it could fly within 1.3 million miles of the sun. Saturn is 886 million miles from the Sun. Surely getting 680 times closer would change this calculation; based on surface area enclosed at 1.3M miles and 886M miles, hydrogen concentration should be ~316 million x greater at 1.3M. Assuming it can be transported, instead of 3/4 million years, you'd be looking at less than a day, not 750,000 years.

Looked up how close could we get to the sun; The Space shuttle reinforced carbon-carbon heat shield is designed to withstand temperatures of up to 4,700°, if the shield wrapped the entire shuttle, it could fly within 1.3 million miles of the sun. Saturn is 886 million miles from the Sun. Surely getting 680 times closer would change this calculation; based on surface area enclosed at 1.3M miles and 886M miles, hydrogen concentration should be ~316 million x greater at 1.3M. Assuming it can be transported, instead of 3/4 million years, you'd be looking at less than a day, not 750,000 years.

Note even if we position the Ramjets 10M miles from the sun, the density should increase 700,000x and the collection time would be reduced to about 13 months.

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Looked up how close could we get to the sun; The Space shuttle reinforced carbon-carbon heat shield is designed to withstand temperatures of up to 4,700°, if the shield wrapped the entire shuttle, it could fly within 1.3 million miles of the sun. Saturn is 886 million miles from the Sun. Surely getting 680 times closer would change this calculation; based on surface area enclosed at 1.3M miles and 886M miles, hydrogen concentration should be ~316 million x greater at 1.3M. Assuming it can be transported, instead of 3/4 million years, you'd be looking at less than a day, not 750,000 years.