Would honestly not mind if ghouls elected to send their ashes into the void so we don’t have to share this planet with them anymore but then again less capitalist graves to defile via piss
Immediate space pollution laws, please. This is disgusting.
It's just sending up ashes that'll deorbit in a few years. Really stupid use of rocket capacity but so are most satellites.
Many propellant types are finite, often some of the better performing ones. Though we can and have made rockets entirely powered by liquid oxygen / liquid hydrogen fuels. We can get both components from water electrolysis, and when mixed and burned to power a rocket, release water as a reaction product.
It's not unconceivable to power a hydrolysis plant and cool the fuels down to liquid form entirely using solar energy. The water produced by the rocket eventually returns back to earth (unless the rocket is far enough away).
even if we lose some of the water to long distance missions, earth is constantly gaining new material from micrometeorites and dust
about 40 tons of various materials each day, i would assume at least some of that is ice or water vapor
So now we're further junking up space so billionaires can flex after they're dead :doomer:
Someone who knows more about space than me please explain how these craft will burn up eventually or something
"These small satellites carry a bevy of human remains that orbit the planet for about a decade before they fall back to Earth and are burnt up in the atmosphere, resembling a shooting star falling back to Earth," Charles Chafer, who founded the company, told UPI in an interview.
Don't worry, no Kessler Syndrome, just macabre meteor showers.
I didn't want to read such a depressing article. That at least makes me feel better. It's coming though: space sarcophagi
I'm not a religious man but if I was, this would be one of the greatest affronts to a corpse I can think of. Every single one of our ancestors died and went back to the earth. Found peace in the soil that nurtured us. Gave back a little bit from what was given to us. But not them. Their remains get to sit in the cold vacuum of space forever, never getting to reunite with our home. Lost for eternity in the stars. Their greed crystalized in their utter separation from every single other human who has ever existed. Fully foregoing their final piece of humanity after rejecting their own humanity in life. Good riddance
how far gone does one have to be to want to do this? How alien these people must feel in their humanity
