by me, Kerry Burgess, 01/09/2024 10:13 AM
I object on moral grounds to the ridiculousness of any religion
The US government protects the Navajo religion same as it protects the equal superstitions of the Jesus Christ mythology
Your ridiculous insistence of "spiritual" is the ultimate expression of your cowardice.
You're cowardly terrified of mortality
Your religions preys (for loot and because to protect mass-hysteria) on weak-character and teaches you how to avoid coping with reality.
I object also to that mission of transferring human-remains to Earth's moon, whether those remains touch the surface or not
It is the typical First-worlder selfishness that you polluters cannot stop
I don't know how much mass is involved in tranferring those remains to space beyond Earth's surface but that's not really the point.
You're a selfish and unremorseful polluter
Those astro-tech companies are wasteful polluters and don't give a damn about anything other than making easy money. It's an activity of multiple layers of pollution.
You're a galactic lameoid to participate in such activity, whether now while you're alive or whether your heirs make the choice
That recent issue happened yesterday and this note is about this day today. Their mission to land on the moon seems to be dead but that's yesterday's news
Invest that money instead, Selfish First-worlder, on research to improve the efficiency of solar-power technology.
From 1/27/1980 ( premiere US TV series episode "Galactica 1980"::series premiere episode "Galactica Finds Earth - Part 1" ) To 1/9/2024 ( Today , Tuesday ) is 16053 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/15/2009 ( ) is 16053 days
by me, Kerry Burgess, posted by me: 1:09 AM June 6, 2023
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactica_1980
Galactica 1980
From Wikipedia
Following the program's cancellation, a feature film titled Conquest of the Earth was stitched together from sections of the three "Galactica Discovers Earth" episodes
Galactica 1980
"Conquest of the Earth" also known as "Galactica Finds Earth"
Dillion: Troy, our first mandate was to stay incognito from the masses.
Jamie: Well, you're doing a great job of that.
Battlestar Galactica (1980) s01e01
"Galactica Discovers Earth" (1)
(from internet transcript)
Don't you want to stay? The Doctor will be back any minute!
We can't just leave. The whole point of our mission was to get the Doctor on our side.
They'll never let us near him.
This place is under siege.
What if he doesn't understand the message?
Nobody on Earth could have done what we did with that formula. He'll understand.
Halt or I'll shoot!
Don't do it.
Gibberish. At least it wasn't graffiti.
What's all the commotion?
I just saw the police with two men in custody out there.
Oh, I'm glad you weren't here. I'm afraid that some of the demonstrators got into the lab.
ALL: Stop nuclear power! Stop nuclear power!
Dorothy, where's my formula?
Oh, one of the men that came in here ruined it. I had to take it off the screen.
You didn't erase it?
Oh, no, no. It's still in the memory bank. But I'm afraid it's not going to be much use to you now. I mean, he literally ruined it. I would have tried to stop him, but the security guard told me to just stay away from them until they arrived.
My God.
I know, I I told you they ruined it.
You think very carefully. Did they say who they were?
Well, no, but I could tell they were just part of that street gang
They must have said something.
Well, they mentioned your paper on PBS.
My one on the theories of brother worlds and atomic travel?
Yeah, I guess so. But I don't understand why you're so interested in hoodlums.
My dear, these hoodlums, as you call them, may be as important to mankind as the coming of the Messiah.
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/human-remains-blasted-space-vulcan-183806630.html
Yahoo
Human remains blasted into space on Vulcan rocket will 'desecrate' the moon, Navajo Nation says
Harry Baker
Mon, January 8, 2024 at 10:38 AM PST
Editor's note: Updated at 3:25 p.m. EST — About six hours after its launch on Monday (Jan. 8), the Peregrine spacecraft ran into technical difficulties that could doom its trip to the moon. Astrobotic Technology, the the private American company that owns the spacecraft, announced that the Peregrine had sprung a leak and was losing rocket fuel needed for its moon landing. The future of the mission is now unclear.
The first-ever private lunar lander is on its way to the moon after successfully blasting off from Florida earlier today (Jan. 8). However, leaders of the Navajo Nation have criticized the launch because the lander is carrying some controversial cargo on its way to the lunar surface — human remains.
The Peregrine Mission One lander, which was built by the Pittsburgh-based company Astrobotic Technology, was launched by United Launch Alliance's (ULA) new Vulcan Centaur rocket, which lifted off from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 2:18 a.m. The rocket will orbit Earth several times before slingshotting toward the moon, where it will repeatedly orbit Earth's satellite before finally deploying the lander for its descent to the lunar surface on Feb. 23 . If Peregrine sticks the landing as planned, it will become the first American spacecraft to touch down on the moon since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972.
The Peregrine mission is the first in NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program, which uses American companies to launch cargo to the moon on NASA's behalf. The lander is carrying payloads from multiple organizations including NASA, which has sent devices that will provide data for the upcoming Artemis missions. The rest of the lander's contents is from private companies that have paid to launch a wide array of cargo to the moon — including scientific experiments, a rover, cryptocurrency products and commemorative plaques and capsules.
Two companies — Celestis and Elysium Space — have also sent cremated human remains, or "cremains," in the lander, as well as other forms of human DNA. The Celestis payload in the lander includes the cremains of around 40 people including science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke and Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry. The company has also launched a separate payload on board ULA's Vulcan rocket, which contains the remains of more than 200 people as well as DNA from four former U.S. presidents, which will be deployed beyond the moon to drift in space.
Related: 'I am horrified': Archaeologists are fuming over ancient human relative remains sent to edge of space
The moon is central to the religious beliefs of many Indigenous groups, including the Navajo Nation, and landing human remains on it can be seen as highly offensive by these groups, Live Science's sister site Space.com reported.
In an open letter to NASA and the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren wrote that "we view it [the moon] as a part of our spiritual heritage" and regard it as "an object of reverence and respect." As a result, landing human remains on the moon is "tantamount to desecration of this sacred space," he wrote in the letter, dated Dec. 21.
Nygren also wrote that NASA and the DOT should have consulted with the Navajo Nation about the lander's contents long before the launch. Nygren asked for the launch to be delayed so the issue could be discussed.
Since 1999, NASA has had an agreement with the Navajo Nation to inform them of any human remains being sent to the moon, after NASA's Lunar Prospector orbiter, which was carrying the cremains of astrogeologist Eugene Shoemaker, was deliberately crashed onto the moon's surface, space exploration news site SpacePolicyOnline.com reported.
Nygren added that this is the type of topic the U.S. government should be consulting the Navajo Nation on in accordance with the 2021 Memorandum on Tribal Consultation and Strengthening Nation-to-Nation Relationships.
NASA argued that because the mission is commercially run, the space agency cannot take responsibility for what other companies sent on the lander. The approval process for commercial missions "doesn't run through NASA," CLPS program manager Chris Culbert said in a statement sent to Space.com. "These are truly commercial missions, and it's up to them to sell what they sell," he added.
But although NASA may not be in charge of this particular mission, it does stem from the agency's initiative, which means NASA is "heavily invested" in the program, Space.com previously reported.
Astrobotic Technology has added that the remains being sent to the moon will not violate any regulations because they will remain in the lander and not touch the lunar surface, SpacePolicyOnline.com reported.
Celestis' CEO and co-founder Charles Chafer has also defended the mission and its payloads: "No individual religion can or should dictate whether a space mission should be approved," Chafer said in a statement sent to Space.com. "We reject the whole premise that this is somehow desecration," he added in a statement to SpacePolicyOnline.com.
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 10:58 AM Pacific-time USA Tuesday 01/09/2024
