Decked out in leather and sunglasses? Uh huh … that’s a cool cat, alright!
Archives for November 2008
How would you like to be buried on the Moon?
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.
Someone’s Paranoid!
Wordless Wednesday
Looks like someone’s either had one too many visits from Aliens or they’re becoming paranoid that they might be due for a close encounter.
Hmmm … maybe odd things have happened to their cows or they’ve discovered crop circles in their field? Either way it’s an interesting message on the barn, isn’t it?
Man bitten by shark has boating accident enroute to hospital
Talk about bad luck!
An Australian fisherman who was bitten by a shark, in September, while trawling for prawn at sea made a mad 20 hour dash with his boat in an attempt to get to a hospital for treatment only to have his boat run aground within sight of land!
Luckily Quentin gorrell was eventually picked up by the police in a dinghy and brought to the hospital.
“We got totally bogged and could feel we were starting to go over. We couldn’t believe it, the wharf was seriously spitting distance away. It was a case of so close but so far,” Gorrell said.
Gorrell is now recovering from the shark attack in which the shark bit his hand, ripping tendons in his index finger. The bite occurred when he was untangling the shark from the nets on his prawn trawler.
“It almost took my finger off from the second joint,” he said.