Importantly, you don’t need to do it well; indeed it’s actually quite hard to fire things into the sun. So the fun comes in how exactly, and how spectacularly, you fail.
The low budget might just be the spaceship blowing up on launch, but this could happen at a few km, or you could have a breakup on the edge of space and a whole meteor shower. And crashing into another planet on the way to the sun might not be spectacular, but it would be noteworthy, indeed historic.
I listen to the news almost exclusively via radio, so I’ve only just seen Newsnight, to chew the day over again. My flabber is ghasted.
Severe nad pummelling to whichever set designer and production team that thought sliding studio background motifs to interviews was tolerable, let alone acceptable.
They might have a tacit policy, but they would be in breach of all sorts of IR and anti-discrimination legislation if they had ‘rules’ about sexual orientation.