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The Navajo Nation agrees re: depositing human remains on the moon: https://www.npr.org/2024/01/07/1223351685/some-people-are-paying-to-deposit-human-remains-on

• legitster 3y ago
  This is kind of a weird objection. We already spread ashes in lots of sacred places - mountains, rivers, oceans, etc. This is just space NIMBYism.
  • vkou 3y ago
    Do you publicly, and with much pomp and fanfare, take millions of dollars to spread celebrity ashes in places sacred to the Navajo? (If you do, you may indeed be the proverbial ass!) They may claim that a river is sacred to them, they don't claim that all rivers are sacred to them.
    • dotnet00 3y ago
      The goal of the lander is not primarily to spread ashes. As for being a place sacred to the Navajo, there are no other Moons for them to claim to be sacred. It is one Moon, shared by all of Humanity, the Navajo alone do not get to lay claim to what should be done on it. Especially since every other culture has some sort of spiritual belief about the Moon and they don't typically hold the same expectation of having everyone else obey their spiritual beliefs.
• baggy_trough 3y ago
  I cannot imagine a more ridiculous claim.