German space capsule lost carrying ashes of 166 people
https://www.dw.com/en/german-space-capsule-lost-carrying-ashes-of-166-people/a-73182447
German space capsule lost carrying ashes of 166 people
https://www.dw.com/en/german-space-capsule-lost-carrying-ashes-of-166-people/a-73182447
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Whelp ill be honest if having my ashes shot into into space to drift for eternity is an option id sign up in a heartbeat. Maybe in a billion years the genetic material is recovered and sequenced from bone fragments by interstellar alien critters or even be a part of panspermia ! Sounds fun.
Why not sprinkle them in space and let the ashes burn up during reentry. Assuming they could burn up any further.
Not what they wanted but can’t say it’s a bad way to spread ashes
I would have rather had the capsule shot off into deep space or burn up on rentry. But to just sink to the bottom of the ocean. Pretty lame.
It’s a tasteless, stupid and mawkish waste of money and energy all at the same time.
Why the actual fuck would someone’s ashes enjoy orbiting the earth before returning? It’s hardly a fucking joy ride for them is it?
At least this way they got scattered for free.
>As well as the human remains, the Nyx capsule had been carrying cannabis plant material and seeds for a citizen science project to study the viability of growing cannabis on Mars
That makes perfect sense. If I had to live in a studio apartment sized habitat module for the rest of my life, on a surface of barren empty planet, I better be stoned for most of that time.
They went from dreams of being astronauts to being aquanauts. Whilst not the same, the depth of our seas are more unexplored than low earth orbit – and ocean currents will take them around the world too.