SpaceX will help funeral startup launch people’s ashes into space aboard a Falcon 9

[Morgen]

[QUOTE]San Francisco based startup Elysium Space is offering packages to memorialize the remains of your loved one by sending a portion of their ashes into space or to the surface of the moon.

The exclusive service does not come cheap. The space memorial tips the scales at a starting price of $2,490 to have ones remains orbit the earth before returning as a shooting star, while the lunar memorial represents the upper echelon of services priced at $9,950. Considering the average cost of a funeral in the U.S. is $9,000, the space-bound services seem relatively cheap by comparison.

The upcoming launch of Elysium’s Star II will be the company’s second and will be catapulted into the heavens on the shoulders of a SpaceX Falcon 9 booster. The mission will take off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in the back half of 2017. The actual date has yet to be confirmed.
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[url]http://www.teslarati.com/spacex-launch-ashes-elysium-space-falcon9/[/url]

[DOG-GY]

let me know when sun impact launches are available

[ScottyWired]

send up my whole body and cremate me via re-entry

I'll be a shooting star if only for a moment

[Chewgum]

what a waste, should let the earth turn your body into dirt

[MatheusMCardoso]

[quote]to the surface of the moon[/quote]

Isn't it wrong to contaminate the moon though?

[DOG-GY]

[QUOTE=MatheusMCardoso;52257089]Isn't it wrong to contaminate the moon though?[/QUOTE]
contamination is only a problem if theres anything to contaminate

[Reds]

[QUOTE=MatheusMCardoso;52257089]Isn't it wrong to contaminate the moon though?[/QUOTE]

Nobody's gonna notice a little extra dust.

[MatheusMCardoso]

[QUOTE=DOG-GY;52257105]contamination is only a problem if theres anything to contaminate[/QUOTE]

I don't think that's the point.

Why introduce foreign matter into the moon's surface that could potentially interfere with future research?

Carbon is characteristically very rare on the moon.

[Crimor]

Because what we need is to have an even bigger kessler syndrome right.

[TCWilliamson]

[QUOTE=Crimor;52257315]Because what we need is to have an even bigger kessler syndrome right.[/QUOTE]

Pretty certain they will put everything in a trajectory to burn up & re-enter in a reasonably short time... or
on a trajectory to fully exit earth's orbit :)

[kylel999]

[QUOTE=DOG-GY;52257105]contamination is only a problem if theres anything to contaminate[/QUOTE]

So you'd want future moon landings to have to land in a dump site of bodies? :v:

[A B.A. Survivor]

[QUOTE=Kylel999;52257380]So you'd want future moon landings to have to land in a dump site of bodies? :v:[/QUOTE]

Call it Corpse Canyon!

[CarnolfMeatla]

[QUOTE=MatheusMCardoso;52257236]I don't think that's the point.

Why introduce foreign matter into the moon's surface that could potentially interfere with future research?

Carbon is characteristically very rare on the moon.[/QUOTE]

I, too, fear the rise of moonzombies.

[OvB]

I want to be cut into thirds and have one chunk dumped into the sea, one chunk buried, and one chunk launched into deep space.

[kaze4159]

Stick me in an old cosmonaut suit, dump my corpse on the moon and stab an American flag through my chest
When a colonist stumbles across my body in a hundred years, it'll start a hell of a conspiracy theory :v:

[Trixil]

[QUOTE=DOG-GY;52257060]let me know when sun impact launches are available[/QUOTE]

fuck that, let me know when black hole entry launches are available, even if it takes a long time for my ashes/body to reach there

[Crimor]

[QUOTE=Trixil;52257865]fuck that, let me know when black hole entry launches are available, even if it takes a long time for my ashes/body to reach there[/QUOTE]

Technically you are on a black hole entry orbit right now :v:

[gvazdas]

[QUOTE=_Chewgum;52257072]what a waste, should let the earth turn your body into dirt[/QUOTE]
yeah, it's a waste, but I personally can't judge anyone for it, the idea of getting yourself off the surface after you die is a pretty beautiful one

[joshuadim]

I'd prefer just having my ashes launched into the void of space to float away for all eternity

That way I'd "explore" space I guess

[meppers]

plastinate my body and put me in the body worlds exhibit so I can creep out kids on field trips for decades.

[Nikita]

Can someone explain why do we still use rockets instead of railguns / mass drivers for solid cargo (i.e. things that don't care about acceleration cause there is nothing to squish)?

[BlackPhoenix]

[QUOTE=Nikita;52258307]Can someone explain why do we still use rockets instead of railguns / mass drivers for solid cargo (i.e. things that don't care about acceleration cause there is nothing to squish)?[/QUOTE]

Because satellites have fragile components, but also railguns don't work for orbital velocities (either there will be very sudden disintegrating stress when exiting the orbital cannon, or the cannon has to be 70 km tall to prevent that exit stress)

[Dr.C]

I'd rather just have my preserved corpse launched into space so alien civilizations might find it and be amazed at alien organic material

[zakededodead]

I want my corpse launched from a falcon 9 into the earth

[DOG-GY]

[QUOTE=MatheusMCardoso;52257236]I don't think that's the point.

Why introduce foreign matter into the moon's surface that could potentially interfere with future research?

Carbon is characteristically very rare on the moon.[/QUOTE]
then there's something to contaminate

[Morbo!!!]

[QUOTE=DOG-GY;52257060]let me know when sun impact launches are available[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=ScottyWired;52257065]send up my whole body and cremate me via re-entry

I'll be a shooting star if only for a moment[/QUOTE]

Fuck this shit, imma find out which aliens got resurrection technology