• partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    When did they become human remains? Before or after launch?

    Long before. Its a company that, after your death, will fly some of your ashes to space. For orbital services, the ashes are then returned to your estate, and in this case that can’t happen because the vessel wasn’t recovered. They also offer deep space launches where your ashes never come back.

    The actor that played Scotty on the original Star Trek has his ashes flown to space, as an example.

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      I was gonna joke that this article could be “headlines about me, from the future” but then I read this comment and now I might not be joking. These molecules yearn to get the fuck away from this place