Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site ucbcad.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!security!genrad!decvax!tektronix!ucbcad!ucbesvax.turner From: ucbesvax.turner@ucbcad.UUCP Newsgroups: net.space Subject: Space Burial - (nf) Message-ID: <210@ucbcad.UUCP> Date: Tue, 5-Jul-83 08:17:29 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbcad.210 Posted: Tue Jul 5 08:17:29 1983 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Jul-83 01:32:59 EDT Sender: notes@ucbcad.UUCP Organization: UC Berkeley, CAD Group Lines: 23 #N:ucbesvax:8700003:000:850 ucbesvax!turner Jul 3 07:50:00 1983 I understand that NASA has decided that burial in space is one of the commercial applications that they prefer not to explore. I think this is terribly short-sighted. There are more than enough egotists out there would would gladly pay $5K a piece to have their ashes mixed in with a ceramic goo, to be dried in aerodynamic molds, carried aloft, and put in a rapidly decaying orbit which had been carefully computed to effect terminal entry (and a pretty flash in the night sky) for the benefit of the those attending outdoor evening memorial ceremonies. Possibly, these artificial meteors could be timed to within a fraction of minute, thus allowing for very high volume funeral services on a national scale, with very predictable satisfaction of customers. A Totally Sick, Pagan Degenerate, Michael Turner ucbvax!ucbesvax.turner