In January 2024, the Astrobiotic company was to write the moon surface to the Vulcan Centaur rocket by United Launch Alliance with the first privately developed Lander with the name Peregrine. The country wore the usual types of scientific instruments, many of which were developed by NASA and their research partners. But a small payload was hidden from all of these instruments, with places in this freight sold by Celestis and Elysium Space.
This payload: some obvious human remains and DNA parts.
Shortly before the start, the Navajo Nation submitted a formal complaint to the NASA and the US Transport Ministry and said that sending human remains violated the lunar surface of its holiness. In the letter it says: “It is crucial to emphasize that the moon maintains a holy position in many indigenous cultures. The act of storing human remains and other materials that could be perceived as deposits in any other location is synonymous with the decradiness of this sacred space.”
The letter asked NASA to delay the start to rethink the effects of her freight.
NASA used the topic and said with absolutely no condemption that “we don't have the framework to tell them [referring to all the private companies involved] What you can and cannot fly … It is up to you to sell what you sell. “In other words, it is not your business. This is one kind -, NASA does not control the entire payload of a private contractor. But the pioneer would not exist if it is not available for NASA's commercial Lunar Service Service.
However, another NASA spokesman recognized that missions like this could actually generate controversy (like those who contain advertising in space), but basically they will do it and find it out later … Whatever always worked great, right?
As far as Celestis is concerned, they only refused to recognize and say the problem: “Nobody and no religion has the moon.
Okay, okay, hold up. I mean, the Celestis answer is technically correct (which is the best kind of real kind), but that doesn't do it right. I can't help but imagine that these words put these words in the mouth of a mustache-screaming cartoon base weight in order to find a legal gap to justify their evil plan.
It is true, nobody has the moon. But that does not mean that someone can do whatever they want. If we put this argument on the utmost, we really want a huge company logo to burn into the regolites so that the world will see so that you are reminded of the existence of a Silicon Valley startups every time you look into the night sky -because of course it is a Silicon Valley startup to pull a stunt like this.
In an ironic turn to this entire saga, the start of the hiker suffered a protective leak. It spent six days in the orbit before it burned in the atmosphere. Maybe the universe is trying to tell us something.
Regardless of what you think of the advantages of the complaint of the Navajo nation, it opens up a greater discussion about the cultural heritage of the moon. The moon is … well, the moon. It was the same moon we have had since dawn of mankind. Yes, our understanding of this has changed in the millennia, but it is still recognizable for every single human culture all over the world and over time. We worshiped it as a deity to use it to mark the rhythms of our life, and carefully observed them to unlock the secrets of the universe.
Yes, a few settlements or a few minor mining operations will not necessarily be visible to the undivided eye, but it is not difficult to imagine that these eyes are imagined. Consider scenes of, as I don't know, the vastness with glittering cities over the proximity to the moon. It looks cool and everything, but we have to ask: Is it what we want? Do we want the moon to look like this?
Now I love a good view of the city's skyline, but I also love mountains and forests and Atacama deserts as much. I have a choice on earth: I can live in a dense urban environment or I can retire to the forest. I have the freedom to choose what I want to see. With the moon you get no choice. When we industrialize the moon, it affects all all over the world. Global consequences have what a government, a company or even a person decides.
At the moment there are no regulations or restrictions on what a private person can do. Nobody has the moon and yet everyone has a share in it. Some cultures still worship the moon as deity or use it to mark the rhythms of their life, or carefully observe it to unlock the secrets of the universe. And while her opinions do not prescribe what we do on the moon, we cannot ignore them either.
Whatever we do on the moon, it must be a group effort.
