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saw that a little while ago. it's fun you can now purchase a lift in LEO and with a direct quote even! so, doing some weird math, you can get about 5000 person
by LoSboccacc 11y ago
saw that a little while ago. it's fun you can now purchase a lift in LEO and with a direct quote even!
so, doing some weird math, you can get about 5000 person ashes in LEO for about 62M, so one could theoretically (I think law forbids it) run a kickstarter campaign to get people ashes in space for 15k each.
Just think of the possibilities! private launch space with a price allows all people a fair access to space (still pricey, but fair)
- Arnt 11y agoThere are many small and light relics of Jesus, both Marys etc around. How about a kickstarter campaign to send one into low earth orbit to watch over us all?
- pluma 11y agoA kickstarter campaign to send all religious paraphernalia to space? Count me in.
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- TomGullen 11y agoI can't think of anything more wasteful!
- stdbrouw 11y agoConsidering that life has no meaning anyway, I can't think of anything less wasteful either.
- TomGullen 11y agoThat's a pretty bleak and limiting view.
- baldfat 11y agoOh that is just the tip of the iceberg when you start studying philosophy. I love Philosophy but the starting questions of what is life and meaning can be over whelming. BTW I named my son Soren for Soren Kierkegaard and man he can be extremely bleak. It kind of goes everything is not understandable till you lose yourself in the madness of nothing being certain AKA Leap of Faith (Which is Leap to Faith but translations screwed it up)
- stdbrouw 11y agoI find it liberating.
- saiya-jin 11y agomany, if not most, find meaning of life in kids. for me, it's a bit more more broad - kids and future generations as part of mankind. your selfish behavior would pollute planet unnecessarily, taking away precious resources, giving back more pollution. you might not care what will happen after you pass away, but I do. (I say this as a space lover whose biggest dream is to get to space one time... but there are far more important things in life than polishing one's ego, which can be anyway achieved in many, many ways. climbed Matterhorn last week, that's a good starter I can recommend to some :))
- hellofunk 11y agoWe have trained you well, grasshopper.
- pierrec 11y agoSome people seem to unironically agree with this, so I'll say the obvious: I don't think the absence of a meaning to life has anything to do with the wastefulness of sending your ashes into orbit. It's more wasteful than spreading them over the sea, for example. Unless you're actually saying that you don't believe in the concept of waste, which would be really sad for you and for everyone around you.
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- benihana 11y agoYou don't have much of an imagination then.
- ukoki 11y agoSounds like http://elysiumspace.com/ http://elysiumspace.com/ I think they only send up a small sample of the ashes rather than the whole urn though. They charge $2k so there's probably some good margins if you can do the same with SpaceX.