X-Message-Number: 22550
From: "John de Rivaz" <>
Subject: pro-death imagery in NASA announcement
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 10:03:56 +0100

NASA decided to crash its Galileo probe into Jupiter, rather then run the
risk of it contaminating any of Jupiter's moons. Presumably this is a wise
decision, I don't really know. Maybe it could have been put into a
slingshot orbit out of the Jupiter system like Voyager. But the point of
this message is to forward the pro-death or at least death accepting imagery
in the prose written to celebrate the decision to scrap this piece of
hardware, which has almost been eulogised as if it was thinking conscious
being rather than a flying box of  sensors and radio transmitters:

> end of its nearly 14 year odyssey through space with a final, glorious
> meeting with the king of the solar system's planetary entourage.

"glorious meeting" = total destruction. "Glorious" is not the word I would
use.

> What more fitting end to the messenger that is also Galileo's
> namesake, than to find final repose in Jupiter.

"final repose" is not the same as being disintegrated to atoms.

-- 
Sincerely, John de Rivaz:  http://John.deRivaz.com for websites including
Cryonics Europe, Longevity Report, The Venturists, Porthtowan, Alec Harley
Reeves - inventor, Arthur Bowker - potter, de Rivaz genealogy,  Nomad .. and
more

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