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2007-04-28 09:05:58 · 10 answers · asked by wholisticuk 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
None, except as some sort of gesture towards someone who portrayed a space explorer.
2007-04-28 09:08:54 · answer #1 · answered by Vincent G 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
His family paid $495.00 to have his ashes flown on the rocket. So did about 200 other families for the same service.
The payments went towards financing the probe. It was the first successful launch from Spaceport America, a commercial spaceport being developed in the southern New Mexico desert.
Such small but successful ventures are attempts to commercialize space travel. THAT is the significance to the planet.
I can see why many people, including yourself, overlooked the real importance of the event. All of the hype was focused on the ashes, not on what the launch really represented.
If you're young, you may live long enough to go on a commercial suborbital flight. When you do, remember this launch and how you were quick to question its purpose before investigating what it was really about.
2007-04-28 10:22:01 · answer #2 · answered by almintaka 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
For all of us "Trekkie's", who still say "beam me up Scottie" and remember with great fondness the Scottie's characters loving treatment of the Enterprise, it is a gesture of love and respect for a great portrayal of a future explorer, and the spirit we would love future space exploration to take.
How could you begrudge such an appropriate show of appreciation.
2007-04-28 09:42:49 · answer #3 · answered by Leal 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
for some is just a waste of money, but for other it's a nice gesture, he was a cool character that many loved, and i think that many nerds became physicists, and astronomers because the phrase "beam me up Scotti", some times money or practical value has nothing to do with spiritual and philosophical value.
2007-04-28 13:42:29 · answer #4 · answered by doom98999 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
some folks will go to extraordinary lengths to get their hands on some dilythilum...
live long - and when you kick it, lleave a futile gesture... publicity in death...
suddenly it all seems logical captain.
2007-04-28 09:11:23 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It does to Mr. Doohan's family.
So long to an ol' drinkin' buddy.
2007-04-28 09:11:11 · answer #6 · answered by Ironball 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is as significant, or insignificant, as any other funeral rites.
2007-04-28 11:43:14 · answer #7 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It all depends on who you ask.
Doug
2007-04-28 09:19:08 · answer #8 · answered by doug_donaghue 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. It has no significance.
2007-04-28 09:34:11 · answer #9 · answered by Spilamilah 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
only if Amazing Grace is played on bagpipes... : )
2007-04-28 12:14:49 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋