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

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