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The remains went into orbit around the sun, as I understand, not a crash landing into the moon.
by mayormcmatt 3y ago
The remains went into orbit around the sun, as I understand, not a crash landing into the moon.
- shadowgovt 3y agoThere is a heliocentric orbit remains payload and a soft-landing lunar remains payload. Same company, which has made the reporting confusing. Two service tiers.
- butlike 3y agoIf: extra-terrestrial life exists How can we, with any certainty, guarantee the human remains won't be a virus or viralphage to them? I think we should pause and think about jettisoning organic material into space.
- mr_toad 3y agoViruses rely heavily on cellular machinery for replication, and whatever machinery alien lifeforms have is likely to be too different for the virus to propagate. Bacteria might be more likely to survive in an alien environment.