Bless you, Jimmy.
CNN says all went well. Upaerospace doesn’t have the video up yet, but the September 2006 launch is still there.
What these stories fail to mention is that only a tiny amount any individual’s ashes are sent into space — about a quarter ounce, in a vial. That’s how they are able to get the “remains” of 200 people on board at one time.
If Doohan weighed 200 pounds at death, he would yield about 6 pounds of cremated remains.
It’s better than nothing.
Bon Voyage, Scotty.
(200 lbs: 6 pounds of cremated remains. 33 1/3 : 1. Sorry, just tucking that bit of trivia away.)
We are star dust.
But are we golden?
Semi related, semi hijack…
a few yrs ago, a relative asked for a late day funeral, to be followed by a night time reception and fireworks show. She wanted people to have a good time, and leave with a smile.
That got me to thinking, how cool it would be to have fireworks made using creamated ashes as part of the colourants in the firework mix (I realize that the colours would be dull yellows and such). Other fioreworks could be deployed fopr colour, or mixed in to enhance the duller carbonate / calcium compounds in the “show”
I also got to thinking that a container of ashes, if launched correctly could make for a specatular meteor show…
thoughts?
(By the way, All respects to J Doohan… may he go boldly forever…
regards
FML
Hunter S. Thompson had his ashes fired from a cannon.
Did a previous effort put ashes into a temporary orbit from which they burned on re-entry?
Godspeed, Mr. Scott. Ye shall be missed.
Many of us have been missing the man for two years.
Yup.
“Ama-a-aaziing grace, how sweet the sound…”
This is cool and all, but I’ve always felt that they should have put him on an interstellar probe. How cool would that be? Of course there is a chance (or a certainty?) that he’d eventually get pulled into some kind of star or other planet.
A chance so miniscule as to be completely negligible, unless the probe is actively aiming for a star. It’s basically the same problem as Olber’s Paradox: Most of the sky is not filled by the surface of a star.
Lots of companies do this already.
Yeah, I know. But it bears repeating.
Geordi must have been at the controls, or something.
How can you lose the greatest engineer in the history of science fiction? That’s like letting DeForest Kelley die from a papercut! :mad:
Most of James Doohan’s ashes were scattered over Puget Sound in Washington State.
OK, so the ashes were intended to go on a sub-orbital trajectory? I was under the impression they were going into orbit. Although the original article didn’t mention it, so I guess that’s a wrong assumption on my part.