SpaceX launched its 22nd rocket of the year on Wednesday, the Transporter-5 rideshare mission, which included delivery of the cremated remains of 47 people to space for the space burial company Celestis.

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

  • CrimsonDynamo [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    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

    • Zoift [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      "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.

      • CrimsonDynamo [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        I didn't want to read such a depressing article. That at least makes me feel better. It's coming though: space sarcophagi