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Eventually it will get cheap enough to where people can be buried on the (shot at the) moon.
by mjh2539 2y ago
Eventually it will get cheap enough to where people can be buried on the (shot at the) moon.
- datameta 2y agoTalked about this with my partner this week. Somebody is going to yeet their ashes into the regolith some day.
- ceejayoz 2y agoIt has already been attempted. https://www.axios.com/2024/01/08/peregrine-moon-lander-launch-human-remains https://www.axios.com/2024/01/08/peregrine-moon-lander-launc...
- datameta 2y agoAnd indeed has been done too! "The human remains aboard the lander won't be the first on the moon, as ashes of Gene Shoemaker, the founder of astrogeology, were buried on the moon in the late 1990s by the Lunar Prospector."
- simiones 2y agoI believe that is illegal in every country, putting human remains on foreign bodies.
- ceejayoz 2y agoIt's not, and there've already been (failed) attempts. https://www.axios.com/2024/01/08/peregrine-moon-lander-launch-human-remains https://www.axios.com/2024/01/08/peregrine-moon-lander-launc... > In addition to the NASA science experiments on board the Peregrine lander are cremated human remains and DNA collected by two private companies, Celestis and Elysium Space. > People hoping to memorialize their loved ones or colleagues pay the companies thousands to send a few grams of cremated ashes to the moon in metal capsules.