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November 15th, 2008 at 5:07 pm

How would you like to be buried on the Moon?

» by Chris in: Strange Happenings, Weird News

If you’ve always had a secret desire to be buried in space your dream might just come true. A US Funeral business is now taking reservations for landing small capsules of ashes (cremated ashes that is) on the moon.

“Celestis’ first general public lunar mission could occur as early as 2010 and reservations are now being taken,” said Charles M. Chafer, Celestis founder and president, in an email to AFP.

“We can send up to 5000 individual capsules to the lunar surface,” he said.

The company also hopes to install a cemetery on the lunar surface to hold the cremated remains of the dead, or a smaller symbolic portion of them, which might one day be visited by relatives of the deceased.

Transportation of the ashes will be handled by two other US private space companies – Odyssey Moon and Astrobotic Technology, both of whom are working on making commercial flights to the moon.

So how much will it cost to be “buried” on the moon? Well .. to send a tiny one gram portion of cremated remains to the moon it will cost about $9,995.

If that’s too expensive you could consider their other funeral services such as sending ash into earths orbit, the cheapest option starting at $700 or you might want your remains launched deep into space at a charge of about $37,000!

Ten years ago NASA paid tribute to top US astronomer Eugene Shoemaker by carrying into space a portion of his cremated remains.

After a year in lunar orbit Shoemaker’s remains were intentionally planted on the moon’s south pole, the first time human remains have been landed on the lunar surface — but maybe not the last time.

Voice123 to launch new version soon

» by Chris in: Employment, Entertainment, Recreation, Technology, Television

If you are looking for Voice over talent for your small business ads, or commercials or if you are a person seeking work in the Voice over industry you might be interested in the latest version of Voice123.com that will be launched in the near future.

I love the trailer that they created to introduce the new version which you can find at http://v2.voice123.com.

After reading some of the release information it looks like it will be easier than ever to connect with people wanting to do voice overs , and get work in the industry. The plan is to use a system called Smart Cast which is designed to help voice-seekers find the best talent for their project on time and on budget. It seems fairly simple and straight forward. A voice seeker posts a project, and Voice123 Smart Cast searches for the best talents out of thousands and invites them to audition, then the voice seeker gets a few dozen auditions or quotes and hires a talent directly.

Keep an eye on Voice123.com for more information regarding the launch of SmartCast.

Webmasters will reap rewards at MegaGlobe

» by Chris in: Great Sites, Home and Lifestyle, Make Money, Technology

I think I mentioned the Megaglobe – International Search Engine that is set to launch at anytime, I think.

Just to refresh your memory. MegaGlobe is set to be a huge search engine that might rival the big three very soon. The MegaGlobe search engine will be published in over 30 Countries, and in more than 45 different languages. Now that is a search engine with a huge reach.

Megaglobe has felt that webmasters aren’t properly recognized or compensated by the current pay – per- click programs offered by at least two of the big three search engines and they hope to rectify this situation shortly after they launch by inviting webmasters to host ads on their site. They are promising high rewards and fair compensation for sales or clicks based on keyword pricing.

Keep an eye on this site as I believe it’s set to launch at any time and it would be great to get in on a new program just as it starts.

MegaGlobe

» by Chris in: Great Sites, Home and Lifestyle, Make Money, Technology, Website Promotion

I don’t know if you’ve heard yet, but a new search engine will soon be launching. Megaglobe – New International Search Engine. Megagloge is spidering the web, collecting sites for it’s search engine. Naturally I listed all of our sites as soon as I visited MegaGlobe because I love being spidered! Hmmm that sounds kind of kinky doesn’t it?

After reading a few press releases for Megaglobe, I discovered that they plan to implement tools that will help put a stop to click fraud. It’s called “Zero Click Fraud” technology, and it will be able to detect false clicks. This will be beneficial to advertisers and websites that place pay per click types of advertising on their sites, because as you might know Google is having a huge problem with click fraud right now with it’s adsense products. MegaGlobe hopes to eliminate this type of fraud which will make pay per click advertising work so much better for website owners and advertisers alike.

When Megaglobe launches it will be available in 45 languages which means it will be able to service the whole world. I think this is going to be an amazing search engine as it will operate from over 300 individual country-specific URL’s, and it will be translated into hundreds of languages. Plus it will employ a unique and sophisticated algorithm to improve the quality of Internet searching. I think MegaGlobe could easily become a rival to Google if it turns out to be as good as it sounds in the press releases.

When Megaglobe launches I want to explore it. I just have a feeling that it’s going to be another great search engine. It looks like MegaGlobe will be offering some kind of ad system. I could be wrong about that though, I’m just guessing since it has developed the click fraud prevention coding. I’m not sure if will offer a way for website owners to make money on their websites through the use of their ads or if the ads will just be on the megaglobe pages. I definitely want to check into the ad system when MegaGlobe starts up. In the mean time why don’t you visit megaglobe and get your site listed too?