If you went on a one way trip to the moon... Would you want your dead body buried on the moon or brought back to Earth?
2007-12-22 18:20:09 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
If it was a one way trip that sort of answers the question.
By the way, I hear there is a new restaurant on the moon. The food is good but there's no atmosphere.
2007-12-22 18:28:36 · answer #1 · answered by mim 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Personally I can't think of any better place to be buried than on the Moon. People today spend money just to get a few bits of human ashes into space. I think the Moon would be the ultimate destination for that kind of service. Sooner or later they'll more than likely be cemeteries on the Moon. More than likely just for ashes. For people looking for that extra special resting place.
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Like a lot of people I'm not real keen about decomposing. Cremation speeds up the process. Ashes to ashes.
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2007-12-23 08:30:24 · answer #2 · answered by ericbryce2 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Several options come to mind.
1. - I'd like to be buried on the Moon. Hopefully I'd be the first (not a great way to enter the history books, but I'd be dead anyway).
2. - I'd like to be brought back to Earth, knowing that my dead weight would be a burden on my fellow astronauts, and I would probably start to rot, without proper refrigeration or preservation facilities on a rocket, making the air unbreathable.
3. - I'd like to be lifted off the Moon, and launched into space, like they do in Star Trek, the first burial in space.
4. - I'd like to be lifted off the moon and jettisoned just before we get to the atmosphere, and end my existence as a flaming meteor, hopefully I would be completely vaporised before I hit the ground.
2007-12-23 02:39:18 · answer #3 · answered by Labsci 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well I for one cant stand the thoughts of being put 6 ft under in a coffin to become worm food.
I love they ideal of being buried in space. That would be awsome.
Brings up an interesting subject of a body decomposing. would it desompose faster in space or on earth. Would being in space prolong the decomposing of the dead human body?
2007-12-23 02:43:23 · answer #4 · answered by mike c 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Definitely left there.
It would be interesting to see what happens to a body when there is no atmosphere.
No maggots because of the absence of flies. no other small creatures that help decompose the body.
I am thinking that it will be only the body's own bacteria and enzymes that will have a feast.
2007-12-23 06:01:47 · answer #5 · answered by freethinker 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋