Why would an orbit decay without something to slow the spacecraft down like an atmosphere? The problem is that any object we launch from earth has a lot of orbital velocity, which makes it almost impossible to hit the sun directly, you would have to use a lot of complex gravity assists from the inner planets to take away enough momentum. Using gravity assists to accelerate outwards is much easier
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That's what the premise of this post was. It's a common saying to "shoot something into the sun", which sounds easy at first but is actually quite hard to do. That's the joke