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As launch costs fall semi-permanent internment in orbit becomes more attractive. IMO the biggest thing preventing this is concerns about space garbage. Addressing these concerns would be as easy as designating an orbit for human remains. This international agreement would do so. Something beyond LEO
would be best, I think, to improve the permanence of the orbit. It should be different from the satellite graveyard to allow less complicated harvesting of that orbit when the time comes.
Space burial company
https://www.celestis.com/
Unfortunately they don't do complete remains [Voice, Aug 29 2021]
A mole of moles
https://what-if.xkcd.com/4/
What happens if you put lots of moles together. [Frankx, Sep 03 2021]
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Maybe it should be a designated solar orbit, although one that doesn't intersect Earth's gravity well would be much more expensive. |
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Honestly, this seems like a sacrificial offering to the space gods. And for that reason [+]. |
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How about just
your hair follicles (or any minute amount of you) sent on an
inter solar voyage on a laser propelled micro-probe to the
exoplanet (or planets) of your
choice? |
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Advertise it as your chance for your genetic
heritage to colonise the stars. |
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'Affordable personal
panspermia for you!' |
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Don't worry about the fact it all gets vaporised on
entry, any DNA will degrade long b4 arrival or that a
little bit of dead flesh can't really propagate its organisms
DNA in any way. |
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Just because it doesn't work won't stop them, people pay
others with no title or legal claim to
them to name stars, they'll buy this
too :) |
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Ah, I missed a bit I see. |
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[Carefully inserts after second Why] |
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Well now you're just splitting hairs... |
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I'd like mine donated to the Kobali. |
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Graves are spreadin' 'round,
in that Nexus found,
They're getting stacked inside Lagrange.
You know what I'm croakin' about...
Just let me know if your corpse should go,
To that tomb out on Lagrange. |
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They got a lot of nice ghouls, uhg. |
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Charge it to the new parents, I'm sure they'll be delighted to
pay. |
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After all, they've never met me ;) |
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There's a HALO joke in there, maybe |
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I want mine on mars, without cremation or even embalming. If enough people join me we'll create an ecosystem up there of earth bacteria, mold, lichen, and worms. I bet all it would take is a pile of ten million warm corpses to definitely transfer life to mars. Whereas a pile in space would have to be absolutely immense -- big enough to have a gravity field that separates the lower bodies into their separate components and then melts the iron -- to host life. |
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+ as long as I am written up in the Orbit Obit. |
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//a pile in space//Been spending time on WBSE have you?
Feasibility of life on a
Flesh Planet? :) |
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I could see David Bowie biting on this. |
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If you really want to to be "permanent", you need to be far
enough out to really avoid atmosphere, and in an area that
isn't needed for commercial development or travel. I'd
recommend the outer edge of the inner van Allen belt. Also
makes it more difficult for future grave robbers when the
grave goods glow in the dark. |
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I'd read somewhere that orbital objects in close proximity
tend to adhere to one another. Should this be the case,
successive launches of deceased groups of corpses could be
tweaked to occupy the same area, bodies hanging out in a
massive commune orbit after orbit, endlessly. |
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Until the Orbital Laser Broom comes online... |
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Get enough of them and they could form their own planetoid.
Maybe this was what the Mormons were on about? Lessee...
if you had 144,000 dead bodies in space, all crammed
together someplace away from other strong gravitational
influences, how much gravitational pull do they pull on
eachother? |
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Ooh. With enough human bodies, you could
literally have a Planet of the Dead. Gruesome. |
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