Every company Microsoft has selected to work with, has lost intellectual assets. The plot of the movie "Pirates of Silicon Valley" includes the part where Bill Gates essentially ripped off the DOS operating system and licensed it to IBM. Also there was the part about Bill Gates working for Apple computers while Microsoft created the Windows graphical user interface.

I'm sure the sun is made of materials (like gasoline) that we don't have that much of here on Earth. There are sun spots, they are the coolest locations on the sun. They keep moving so it will be impossible schedule a long mission to reach one of them. The power of the Earth and anything on it is insignificant when compared to the gravity and power of the sun. NASA will be toasted on this project.