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Sunday, October 19, 2014

BURIED IN THE STRATOSPHERE CONCLUSION

Imagine having your remains floating down to earth in a snowflake? Or maybe your loved ones would hear the rain falling on the roof and inside one of those raindrops would be one or two of your ashes. The others floating somewhere on the wind somewhere in the world. A company called Mesolof will charge a few thousand dollars to send your ashes up into space in a balloon and then release them. Depending on how much you are willing to spend you could even have them dropped on a special location. In an unmentioned article the idea was called "creepy," but just the opposite, it is fascinating. Would I ever go to such extremes? The answer is that I will one day opt for cremation but not to be dropped out of space. But at the same time I think it is poetic. I actually went through a period of time when I wanted to be cremated and then painted onto a canvas in a picture of my design to be one day hung on my daughter' wall. But of course after thinking it over I decided that that wouldn't be the best course of action.

I think the idea of somebody having a funeral service at the edge of space is "totally Venus!" The whole techie boom of the 90's was intense and pretty space age for back then. The new intergalactic boom that is fast approaching is going to to take space age to the edge of comprehension. It was inevitable after all. Do you think in 1888 the world was ready for what lay in store with the airplane and then the industrial age? What would you say? It turned out fine, everything is working like a charm? Has the world evolved any? Sort of... But for sure the age of space advancement for the wealthy and eventually the average person is so close that our palms are beginning to sweat. Just a few weeks ago articles were racing through the science magazines about scientists working on sending a crew to Mars by way of extended sleep periods and IV dietary supplements. It is remarkable and the spreading of ashes into the atmosphere is equally interesting. Where exactly will the ashes go and will any of them just get caught in orbit and float around and around and around for the rest of eternity? The average person walking along the street has no concept of space. Maybe in the next 1,000,000 years when the comet decides to come on by our solar system again maybe the atmosphere will be full of the ghosts of the parents of the children of the intergalactic age. We look at our children playing in the sand box or swinging on the swing sets but but we fail to glimpse is the glints of the future. The ones moving the technology to the grandest of all scales, to the furthest dimensions possible and those, as far as we can tell now, exist somewhere outside this world.

Imagine the view looking down on this beautiful, crazy world. Especially at night with all the lights of the cities. How will the ashes react to the radiative action and other processes going on at that altitude. It probably doesn't even matter up that high anyway. After a few hundred thousand years they will start to explain sunsets and sunrises around the world on the ashes. The theory is that the ashes would fall down to earth on a specific locale though who can really tell yet. With winds and storms and chemical reactions up in the stratosphere nobody really knows yet how it will all work out, or do they? Or have people already been laid to rest in the stratosphere? Would it even be possible to track where the ashes landed? I don't know how relevant that would be and most likely the deceased would rather imagine their ashes being caught in the winds of time and traveling the world forever, stopping periodically at some of the finer beaches and nature preserves or historical monuments. God forbid the ashes fall out of the sky and land in some place like Detroit or Camden. Any offense taken by either or those cities is greatly deserved. They have done little for their own reputations. Anyway I'm not interested in those places. What interests me is space travel, time travel, mega-dimensions, super string and anything related. The future is upon us.

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