X-Message-Number: 13703 From: "Terry Grossman" <> Subject: Re: CryoNet #13690 - #13691 Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 06:43:32 -0600 Just saw the following in the news (5/10/00): LOS ANGELES (AP) - The company that launched cremated bits of "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry and LSD guru Timothy Leary into the heavens more than three years ago is taking reservations to bury the dearly departed on the moon as early as next year. A commercial rocket launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base or Cape Canaveral, Fla., will include a payload of lipstick-size capsules containing cremated remains of about 200 people. The four-day, 240,000-mile flight to the moon and then collision with its surface will run $12,500 per person. I believe temperatures on the "dark side" of the moon hover at < -100 degrees at all times. Don't know if this would represent a viable option, but burial beneath the lunar surface might work quite well --- but, the company above is going to need to do something about that rough landing mentioned above and also would need to carry a bit more "payload" than lipstick sized capsules. Terry Grossman MD Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=13703