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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by JohnBrownsBussy2@hexbear.net to c/technology@hexbear.net

Due to a power issue, it looks like the lander may now no longer have sufficient fuel to make a controlled landing on the moon. This was the lander that was set to carry human remains to the moon despite objections from the Navajo nation. Hopefully, this discourages any future attempts at such a stunt, since instead of a permanent mausoleum your ashes may instead be stranded in orbit or scattered amongst the moon dust if the thing crashes.

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[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

anybody who wants to put ashes on the moon should themselves be immediately cremated and their ashes tossed into a campsite portapotty. fuck you

[-] WithoutFurtherBelay@hexbear.net 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

ok sorry, I can tell it was wrong

Edit: At risk of seeming like a smug bitch I do think being cremated and put into waste wouldn’t be the worst, it would literally return me as part of the natural cycle which could be cool as fuck. It would be cooler than being buried on celestial bodies 9 times out of 10, actually (that last 1 is for if climate change somehow manages to sterilize all soil on Earth and reduces it to a mars-like husk of its former self).

[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 4 points 10 months ago

tha'ts the default of dropping dead onto the earth

[-] WithoutFurtherBelay@hexbear.net 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yeah but it skips the (IMO, I know it’s very subjective) gross decomposition phase. No worms eating your flesh, just going straight to insects and plants and microbes feasting on your direct nutrients.

If we want to punish people after they die I think we should plasticize their body like we did with Lenin (though we did that to him out of honor instead) and stick them in a memorial of their evil deeds.

Edit: but returning them to the earth, though more than they deserve, at least sort of erases them from existence entirely.

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