"Hello Mr. Johnson. I'm a test subject at your laboratories and thus am happy to help out for the best. My question is.. if most, if not all, Aperture science things and such can withstand temperatures beyond expected, why don't we establish a command center that orbits the sun? It would be of huge interest to the workers of our rival Black Mesa, so if we leak this information to them get them on-board with the project and they miraculously begin being pulled into the sun by it's gravity and become incinerated while in the center, could we use this to our advantage and say they died in the name of science?" -Test Subject #44935
Good point, Test Subject! I like your style!
Unfortunately, Black Mesa is our rival for one thing: Stealing things from us. That means that they'll most likely have our Science Disprover Beam, which determines what would be worthy to test and gain results for Science or not. Good news is we made that beam, meaning we could simply have our engineers build a new device that contradicts all of the beam's results entirely! Bad news? Black Mesa will probably steal that too. Coming from an honest man, I gotta admit Black Mesa is skilled at stealing stuff from us.. 3000 miles below the surface.
Until I figure out that Black Mesa is sending out men with BLACK MESA shirts on to trick my people into giving anything, I won't be firing their asses. I'll admit your idea for a command center was good, but believe it or not we tried that. First time, we filled the place with 300 of our guys and 33,000 random people from all over the world. The results were highly informative!
..They all died crashing into Jupiter.
The good news is we tried it again, 5 months later. Repositioning the command center did the trick! Except it was smashed to pieces by an asteroid and rocketed into the sun. We decided it was a faulty idea, until Caroline informed us that the Command Center had to be positioned near the asteroid belt with a bunch of Hard Light Bridges. It worked, except that was 12 years ago. The command center probably got thrown off orbit and flew into space. Theory is they either died from one of the above or froze to death because of the lack of.. Well, the sun.
Again, thank you for the question! All in all though, it might not work. We might try again sometime in the near future assuming we can get ourselves hauled from bankruptcy.