Skywise wrote in
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Larry Dighera wrote in
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Snipola
I'm not paying for the comments you mention, but we are all paying for
NASA's decision to include incinerated human remains aboard this
mission to Pluto. What will NASA do if the discoverer of the next
planet to which they decide to send a spacecraft has chosen not to be
cremated? Will they send rotten human flesh into space at our
expense? Where will this dubious practice lead?
Snipola

I have to ask, how much do you think it is costing *YOU* to add
those ashes on the mission?

Here's a suggestion. Why not email NASA and ask them for details
about the how much extra it costs placing those ashes on the craft
for each each tax payer.

How much does the craft weigh?

How much do the ashes weigh?

What is the total cost of the mission?

From that you should be able to figure out the cost of the ashes.

Then spread that out over all the taxpayers.

I'd be astonished if it cost more than a penny per person.

I bet somewhere in NASA there is already a document covering this.

Brian

Following up on this...

From the Launch Press Kit at (top right corner):
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ne...ews/index.html

Mission cost: $700 million
Space craft weight: 478 kg

From wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populat..._United_States

Population of US, December 2005: 298 million (estimate)

Cost per person per gram of weight: .00049 cents

In my brief search I found no informaiton on exactly how
much of Clyde's remains were on board, but I doubt is was
even as much as a gram.

Brian
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