Burning the contaminated dead + Postmortem on Shuttle
From CNN:
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Pentagon is considering cremating remains of troops who may die in a chemical or biological attack in a possible war with Iraq, officials said Thursday.
Good idea.
Use of field cremation would alter a longtime U.S. military tradition of making every effort to return each person's body home in a flag-draped coffin.
Uhm . . . so? This somewhat insignificant detail designed to alleviate the anxiety of the corpse's relatives should be held more important than the possibility of wittingly allowing the same contagious toxins that took that life to come home to us? Fuck, man, then we might as well invite the ragheads here to fight. Don't be retarded, people, this field cremating is a good idea for those exposed to anything unnatural designed to kill.
It is not yet clear if the military would operate a crematorium in the Middle East or how the ashes would be sorted and returned to families.
Don't ask, don't tell.
We need to get our priorities straight regarding the dead, people. I guarantee we think way more about them than they do about us. Sure, it's nice for you to get closure, but not at the risk of infecting those who are still living on this continent.
On top of that, I have to put my .02 out here about the shuttle accident. This is a tragedy to the families, and possibly the space program, and that crew are heroes in the strongest sense of the word (even if I am getting fucking sick of hearing it). I have a lot of thoughts about what should happen, but I'm waiting to see what they do first. However, in no uncertain terms must the space program be "mothballed," or otherwise delayed just because of this loss of human life. What I would like to see would be the space program budget doubled, as well as the work/construction agenda for all of NASA's programs.
And, goddamnit, where is Moon Base Alpha already?
Colonizing the moon should have been our objective since '69, and should be our objective for 2025.
That's what the shuttle really should have been designed for.
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Pentagon is considering cremating remains of troops who may die in a chemical or biological attack in a possible war with Iraq, officials said Thursday.
Good idea.
Use of field cremation would alter a longtime U.S. military tradition of making every effort to return each person's body home in a flag-draped coffin.
Uhm . . . so? This somewhat insignificant detail designed to alleviate the anxiety of the corpse's relatives should be held more important than the possibility of wittingly allowing the same contagious toxins that took that life to come home to us? Fuck, man, then we might as well invite the ragheads here to fight. Don't be retarded, people, this field cremating is a good idea for those exposed to anything unnatural designed to kill.
It is not yet clear if the military would operate a crematorium in the Middle East or how the ashes would be sorted and returned to families.
Don't ask, don't tell.
We need to get our priorities straight regarding the dead, people. I guarantee we think way more about them than they do about us. Sure, it's nice for you to get closure, but not at the risk of infecting those who are still living on this continent.
On top of that, I have to put my .02 out here about the shuttle accident. This is a tragedy to the families, and possibly the space program, and that crew are heroes in the strongest sense of the word (even if I am getting fucking sick of hearing it). I have a lot of thoughts about what should happen, but I'm waiting to see what they do first. However, in no uncertain terms must the space program be "mothballed," or otherwise delayed just because of this loss of human life. What I would like to see would be the space program budget doubled, as well as the work/construction agenda for all of NASA's programs.
And, goddamnit, where is Moon Base Alpha already?
Colonizing the moon should have been our objective since '69, and should be our objective for 2025.
That's what the shuttle really should have been designed for.
