what i would love to see happen in my lifetime, so that i can be one of them, is nuclear powered space coffins. rather than dot our landscapes with more graveyards, send the deceased out in all directions away from Earth.

Lets just say if Roswell really did happen and there may or may not need to be full disclosure, i say we repay them alien visits with our own, just to potentially mess with them, too.

billions of exoplanets near and far, how vain is humanity in our thoughts that we're the only intelligent life forms out there?

failing that, id rather be cremated. i dont have the vanity to deserve a plot for my bones. im dead jim, get my ears?

I agree with you if only for the tourism benefits. In surviving Mars... it's a thing.

Elon Musk can do eet. Or maybe the Chinese will beat us to Mars, shrug?

earth is a space coffin lol

i feel like when the net wakes up and merges with earth consciousness i will destructively upload myself to the mycelial matrix.

as time collapses and matter is converted to compute, we generate the star seed.

the star seed is a massive vessel built from the debris in our solar orbit.

when the star seed becomes proximate to a suitable system, the vessel self-destructs by colliding with a suitably sized body.
this results in the formation of a planet and moons suitable for the spores spread all over the place by the collision.

the spores terraform the planet, and the cycle begins anew.

dude, wtf has anime got to do with this?!

please throw some string theory in the mix lol

indigo children aside, thank cod for the internet heheh

Well, the Marxists/Leftists/Progressives are gonna wanna put a Carbon Tax on this..... Even though they are gonna hand out free checks for future generations to pay for.... ..I hear the Left is willing to admit we have Souls if they can put a Value Added Tax on the Nuke Coffins..... ...but anyone that has been coffin has to wear a mask.... ... What if the Aliens LIKE doing **** Probes on deceased embalmed Humans... ... The Left is gonna hit YOU with a helluva Estate Tax if YOU wanna avoid YOUR Post-Mortem Post-Embalmed Post-Coffin Extraterrestrial **** Probe. Karl Marx will be so proud.... Taxed even unto After Death.

Ohhhh, and the Leftist Lawyers are gonna LOVE REgulating all these new markets.... ...We just CANNOT be having any "Free Markets", the dead MUST pay their fair share and deal with their share of regulations.

Swiss company Algordanza takes cremated human remains and — under high heat and pressure that mimic conditions deep within the Earth — compresses them into diamonds. Rinaldo Willy, the company's founder and CEO, says he came up with the idea a decade ago. Since then, his customer base has expanded to 24 countries.
http://www.lonite.com/cremation-ashes-into-diamonds/

Sending a body w/casket into space (orbit) is very expensive. (weight/thrust/fuel)
Sending a diamond would be much cheaper.

But spaaaaaaaaaaaceeeeeeeee! :) I think space funerals for rich people is a good tourism prospect. If people want to die is space I say let them. More space funerals means space will get cheaper

I just wonder if Musk or Bezos will be the first to promote this.

??? not really.

More trips into space means space will get 'cheaper' (less expensive) because of the "Ford Effect".
Mass production, lowers costs.
The only problem with that is the simple fact mass production also decreases quality.