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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: OH MY WORLD! on February 03, 2016, 06:29:56 PM

Title: "Holy Smokes" shot gun shells
Post by: OH MY WORLD! on February 03, 2016, 06:29:56 PM: I love it!

http://www.wired.com/2011/10/holy-smokes-loads-cremation-ashes-into-shotgun-shells/
Title: Re: "Holy Smokes" shot gun shells
Post by: ekim on February 04, 2016, 10:40:23 AM: Could only happen in America. I suppose the next venture will be sending rockets filled with ashes to the heavens.
Title: Re: "Holy Smokes" shot gun shells
Post by: Shaker on February 04, 2016, 10:45:06 AM: Quote from: ekim on February 04, 2016, 10:40:23 AM
Could only happen in America. I suppose the next venture will be sending rockets filled with ashes to the heavens.
Too late - it's already been done, though not often as the cost is prohibitive to all but the very wealthy. Every last milligram of payload costs a fortune. Gene Roddenberry (creator of Star Trek) and Timothy Leary both had their ashes put into orbit.
Title: Re: "Holy Smokes" shot gun shells
Post by: floo on February 04, 2016, 11:37:22 AM: The US and its sick fascination for guns, even ones with shells filled with human ashes! >:(
Title: Re: "Holy Smokes" shot gun shells
Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on February 04, 2016, 11:38:19 AM: Quote from: Shaker on February 04, 2016, 10:45:06 AM
Too late - it's already been done, though not often as the cost is prohibitive to all but the very wealthy. Every last milligram of payload costs a fortune. Gene Roddenberry (creator of Star Trek) and Timothy Leary both had their ashes put into orbit.

Hopefully this song was played when Leary went up:

https://youtu.be/A-r209RPsvQ
Title: Re: "Holy Smokes" shot gun shells
Post by: Shaker on February 04, 2016, 11:38:32 AM: Quote from: Floo on February 04, 2016, 11:37:22 AM
The US and its sick fascination for guns, even ones with shells filled with human ashes! >:(
Yes, my initial thought too ::)
Title: Re: "Holy Smokes" shot gun shells
Post by: ippy on February 04, 2016, 03:41:11 PM: I'd just settle for being sharp but I don't know SD, sharp at eighty, just a thought don't get so drunk you could be taken advantage of,have a lovely birthday,good on you.

Kindest of regards, ippy.
Title: Re: "Holy Smokes" shot gun shells
Post by: OH MY WORLD! on February 04, 2016, 03:45:34 PM: Not fascination, they just love them like the Swiss and French.
Title: Re: "Holy Smokes" shot gun shells
Post by: Shaker on February 04, 2016, 03:48:02 PM: Quote from: OH MY WORLD! on February 04, 2016, 03:45:34 PM
Not fascination, they just love them like the Swiss and French.
And kill more with them than both those nationalities combined.
Title: Re: "Holy Smokes" shot gun shells
Post by: floo on February 04, 2016, 03:50:42 PM: Quote from: Shaker on February 04, 2016, 03:48:02 PM
And kill more with them than both those nationalities combined.

Exactly!
Title: Re: "Holy Smokes" shot gun shells
Post by: OH MY WORLD! on February 04, 2016, 03:53:32 PM: Not with the holy smoke shells you silly old Shaker.
Title: Re: "Holy Smokes" shot gun shells
Post by: Hope on February 04, 2016, 05:39:20 PM: Quote from: Shaker on February 04, 2016, 03:48:02 PM
And kill more with them than both those nationalities combined.
But is that number proportionally larger or smaller per person than in France or Switzerland, Shakes? I think that that is perhaps a more important statistic.
Title: Re: "Holy Smokes" shot gun shells
Post by: Sebastian Toe on February 04, 2016, 06:00:41 PM: Quote from: Hope on February 04, 2016, 05:39:20 PM
But is that number proportionally larger or smaller per person than in France or Switzerland, Shakes? I think that that is perhaps a more important statistic.

Does this help?

http://www.humanosphere.org/science/2015/10/visualizing-gun-deaths-comparing-u-s-rest-world/