Human beings will one day walk on the surface of the Sun
By
Josh Atkins
on May 10, 2008
By which I mean spacewalk (perform an extra-vehicular activity); obviously there's no solid ground to walk on. It would, of course, be very, very, very, very, very, dangerous and complex. For the sake of argument, lets say an astronaut were to exit the hatch of their spacecraft from a low solar orbit, fire thrusters on something like a mega-Manned Maneuvring Unit (the jetpack used by Shuttle astronauts in the mid 80s to perform untethered Earth orbit spacewalks) to de-orbit, then descend to the surface, have a walk, and fire the thrusters again to go back into orbit.
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I imagine it would be like trying to walk on a cloud, assuming the problems associated with gravity, heat and radiation have gone away. Did you see the recent pictures from the Stereo array?
one day we will walk like a bird
What would be the point?
Scientists will find a point.
Yeah, solar gravity's strong. VERY strong