01-05-2024, 07:47 PM
Cremated remains on the moon is "desecration" to indigenous peoples on Earth who have never been there:
"...Also onboard, courtesy of the space memorial firms Elysium Space and Celestis, are cremated human remains and DNA, some of which belong to Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek. The latter payloads have proved divisive. In a letter to Nasa, Buu Nygren, the president of the Navajo Nation, emphasised that the moon was sacred to many Indigenous cultures, and said depositing the material was “tantamount to desecration”. In response, Culbert stressed that Peregrine was a commercial mission and that Nasa was not in a position to tell Astrobotic what they could and could not fly."
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024...n-the-moon
I hinted at something like this on a post a few years ago that I'm not going to look up. The gist was that every mountain is sacred to somebody, so agreeing that there should be no telescopes on one of them means agreeing there should be no telescopes on any of them. And sacred ground isn't limited to mountains, there should be no telescopes anywhere on Earth, and now, all the celestial bodies are being claimed as sacred and subject to "desecration".
The slope just gets more and more slippery.
"...Also onboard, courtesy of the space memorial firms Elysium Space and Celestis, are cremated human remains and DNA, some of which belong to Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek. The latter payloads have proved divisive. In a letter to Nasa, Buu Nygren, the president of the Navajo Nation, emphasised that the moon was sacred to many Indigenous cultures, and said depositing the material was “tantamount to desecration”. In response, Culbert stressed that Peregrine was a commercial mission and that Nasa was not in a position to tell Astrobotic what they could and could not fly."
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024...n-the-moon
I hinted at something like this on a post a few years ago that I'm not going to look up. The gist was that every mountain is sacred to somebody, so agreeing that there should be no telescopes on one of them means agreeing there should be no telescopes on any of them. And sacred ground isn't limited to mountains, there should be no telescopes anywhere on Earth, and now, all the celestial bodies are being claimed as sacred and subject to "desecration".
The slope just gets more and more slippery.