If you hit a star, it would probably be the sun. If you flew as fast as NASA's New Horizon Probe, so the Interwebs tell me, you could slam into the sun's corona sphere in about 106 days. You would be going a little over 36,373 mpg (we're ignoring the drag from solar wind here, and ignoring the fact that it would kill you, just to keep things simple), so congratulations, you've been vaporized before reaching the Sun Proper.
Anyway, were you to miss the sun and tumble off into space, the nearest star to our solar system is Proxima Centauri, which is a mere 4.21 light years away. I suspect that you would die before you reached the Oort Cloud. But let’s say you started on the right trajectory and actually made it to Proxima Centauri some time this decade. That would mean you're a being with superpowers, so you probably don't need motivational memes and the like. You would also want to avoid *hitting* it, for the same reason that hitting the sun was a bad idea.
You know, maybe it's better if you don't aim for the moon in the first place. After all, were you to hit it even that collision would kill you. But let's say you landed safely on the moon all by your lonesome. There's nothing to do there. I doubt the old car we left behind still runs. O, and there's *no air*, the moon being by nature inhospitable to us. The long story short is that, even if you aren't killed *hitting the moon*, you'll die in short order once you're there. No, aiming for the moon is not a good idea at all.
Now, I suppose this could mean that you're trying to *shoot something at the moon*, in which case I just don't see the point at all.
Hope you're feeling motivated to do something.
Hope you're feeling motivated to do something.
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