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space cremation
place corpse in orbit and let burn-up upon rentry to atmosphere (with or without casket) | |
this is how arthur clark should have been cremated and other notable outerspace gurus.
in the futur ( presumably because it's soo expensive right now),
placing a corpse in a special orbit ( perhaps a polar orbit) will be like floating and placing a corpse in the famed ganges river.
only at the
end of the orbital 'river' lies a fiery rentry path colliding with the atmosphere at high speed. it would resemble placing a corpse in the ganges river, only for the river to empty out into a volcano.
beautiful.
the other alternative would be placing a corpse in a decaying orbit around the sun ( but this is less cool)
also, i'm not biting off the movie the fountain ( by darren aronofski) as the main character is attempting to take his dead lover who is entombed in some semi-living state inside a tree (or is the tree) towards the nearest star in order to get eternal life or somethign which is unclear.
and finally, this is WAY cooler than launching your ashes into space, which i think is relatively boring and lame. (but actually affordable right now and doable)
Ethermal Resting Place
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[theircompetitor, Jun 18 2008]
"Scotty"
http://en.wikipedia...g/wiki/James_Doohan
Hail to thee, the man who dumped all those Tribbles on the Klingons ... [8th of 7, Jun 19 2008]
Aerial Burial
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redundant I believe - sorry [zevkirsh] - it happens [xenzag, Jun 19 2008, last modified Jun 20 2008]
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Will it be possible to nominate people who aren't dead yet for this ? If so, [++] |
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//and finally, this is WAY cooler than launching your ashes into space, which i think is relatively boring and lame. (but actually affordable right now and doable)// <que N-prize funding blurb stage left> |
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What do a person's ashes weigh? |
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Occasionally I see images of space junk that didn't burn up. Would an occasional partial corpse land in somebody's yard? |
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n-prize? what's that? also i wasn't trying to advertize for launching ashes. |
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as for a non-combusted body corpse reaching the planet...well that's just a freaking cherry on top!. if you survived re-entry, you'd be a human meteorite, also called a humarite---or possibly , a meteorpse. |
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damn this just keeps getting better. |
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Aww. Somebody deleted my anno. |
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Personally, I like the concept. I also would like to be a future moon or comet ‘impactor’ |
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NASA spends so much time and money trying to avoid this process. Unless of course their astronauts are about to end up as orbiting corpses; Then a forced re-entry sounds like a good idea, fatal or not. After all, who wants orbiting space hero corpses that public will force you to rescue later (at great peril to another set of space heroes). |
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Didn't Montgomery Scott get this honor? |
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I think it would be interesting to arrange it so that the trail is highly visible. The display might be seen by a whole nation. |
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"Oh look, a shooting star!" could take on a whole new meaning. |
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//Didn't Montgomery Scott get this honor? // |
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"approximately one-quarter ounce (7 grams) of Doohan's ashes were sent into space" |
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I'm sure I read this idea on Bakery before...
too lazy to search for it. |
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There's a host of ideas on here relating burial and space. Soon it will be up for new category? |
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TOTALLY REDUNDANT. WOW. DAMN JULY 2003. IDEAS COME AND GO AND COME AGAIN. 5 YEARS LATER. WOW. |
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//Aww. Somebody deleted my anno//
I wonder who could have done that? |
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You're supposed to fly the corpse into a black hole . . . |
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..... or send it to Arkansas. Same thing, really. |
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Do it en masse to combat cost. |
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Igf you don't embalm, you can send the body on a collision course with another planet. They can be the start of life on another world! |
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Enbalm with chemicals that will burn with brilliant colors on the reentry. Go out with a blaze of glory. |
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...eh HELLOOOOO - it's redundant and
therefore unfortunately [marked-for-
deletion] see link Aerial Burial. |
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