I don't think that's what they meant when they said they were gonna blaze it.
this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2025
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Okay, partial failure. But they ended up with an epic Viking burial at sea!
🎶 Always look on the bright side of life 🎶
So uh, how much cannabis? Asking for a fisherman.
Wow the comments here are gold
I mean, haha silly funny time, but it was a person, Phillip Chapman, an astronaut's remains. Please show some respect.
Spewing that much poison into the atmosphere for superstitious reasons is not worthy of respect, no matter who they were when they were alive.
The spacecraft was actually part of a ride share, with lots of other payloads, so the launch was for a lot of reasons.
actually, that was their other launch. It exploded.
When did they become human remains? Before or after launch?
When did they become human remains? Before or after launch?
Long before. Its a company that, after your death, will fly some of your ashes to space. For orbital services, the ashes are then returned to your estate, and in this case that can't happen because the vessel wasn't recovered. They also offer deep space launches where your ashes never come back.
The actor that played Scotty on the original Star Trek has his ashes flown to space, as an example.
I was gonna joke that this article could be “headlines about me, from the future” but then I read this comment and now I might not be joking. These molecules yearn to get the fuck away from this place
and it's floating in a most peculiar way
FOUR THREE TWO ONE
Well that’s a brand new sentence.
My Temu order coming in as expected
Sometimes that comedown be hard AF, tho.