Why is the obsession to send items to the world in orbit

Beyond the race for scientific, commercial and military purposes, there is another curious type of space race. The first race to send different items there. But why?

In December 2024, Japan’s Buddhist monks tried unsuccessfully to send a small temple on a satellite to orbit. The rocket made it a distance of more than 110 km from the earth, which for the first time, Danichi Neuroi (Buddha of the universe) and Mandela were transferred to the outer space. The monks hope to try again in the future.

The space temple is just about the size of the medium -sized Amazon delivery box, and has been added to the gold protective foil. Wednesday sits in a special basket. The idea is that with the increasing number of Japanese people living outside Japan, prayers for departing loved ones can reach Wednesday when it goes through the head.

Before being the first matter. It seems that humans have a natural priority to be first, even more likely to choose the first option on a list. The Austrian Medical Dr. Alfred Adler is called the “Community Complex” – explaining it – which needs to be proved by himself.

Nevertheless, it can be merely a evolutionary trait that was genuinely useful in the past, but it has spread to more curious priorities, such as expecting a first -born child or voting for the first candidate on the list.

In addition, the biologist Ernest Meyer calls the “founding effect”, after which the first moor used inappropriate influence on the later events.

The real idea of ​​the mayor was about genetics and how the founders of the biology population can restrict subsequent diversity. But then the idea has been implemented more extensively to explain that people who arrive first or first have an influence on subsequent agents.

It is seen in this light, it is true that people want to be the first person to send something into space. But the choice of the items sent is not always so clear. Or instead, there is a sliding scale that runs from understandable to straightforward.

Infinite, old memories and foreigners

At the understandable end of the scale, we have the remains of humans, pets and even dinosaurs. Not large pieces, just pieces of hair or ash.

A company called Celsius has been sending Ashes and DNA into space since 1994. In 1997, he was sent to pieces of 24 people, including the Star Trek creator Jean Rodnaberi, called “Founder Flight”. It was the first memorable flight in space.

Five years later, the remnants are unintentionally irrelevant. Yet, despite the accidental burning, relatives may find that their loved ones have achieved all kinds of infinite status. However, they were before.

Something similar applies to pets. A failed launch in January 2024 includes partial remains of a dog named Jane Roden Berry and Indica Nodal Fabiano.

Remembering people in space is especially popular. Even the Apollo 15 missions left the monument of astronauts falling into the headley rail in 1971.

Likewise, we have, on numerous occasions, the bones of the dinosaur have been temporarily sent to orbit. Including a piece of Tea Rex in the NASA Orion flight in 2014 “was justified as a reminder of how much life the earth had seen during its existence.”

This shows a deep, more emotional reason that we want to send goods into space. With the quest to be first, such items can be proxy for infinite.

They can also be born with old memories. And why do we want the past life on earth to make a permanent clue?

It is difficult to understand other items. In December, a company called BBAI plans to supply the nickel disk to the moon. On the disk, a trainee A Buddhist priest will be impressed with the digital image called EMI JIDO.

There are not just Buddhist messages in space. For example, the Russian segment of the International Space Station contains all kinds of orthodox religious maps

But what is the benefit of having religious messages in space when they have no one to read? This shows another intention: We hope that a message will eventually travel largely to reach the form of another life.

Make a mark

Similarly, there is a very clear feeling in the transfer of poetic vagina, a weak gesture of vaginal contraction changed in the direction of the Erridins Bridge through the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1986. The US Air Force, under the control of ground convenience, could have been sent to a strong transmission.

And it is clear that the performance of the Klungan Opera was sent to the Arctus in the Boyts Bridge in 2010, in which the invitation to the Klungan (a fantasy language of the Star Trek) was written. Instead of the message of the representative of our culture, this universe came closer to false information.

In the most famous case of the strange things sent to the space, Elon Musk launched his Cherry Red Tesla Roadster Sports Car in 2018, which was completed with a Manican on the driver’s seat, and David Bowie’s space Oditi blew up a car radio. Currently, it is about 248 million kilometers from the ground.

Another reason these things may show that we send things in space that are infinite, old memories, communicating with foreigners, or being less about being. The things that appear meaningless in their favor are still a statement of intention. It is as if someone puts a towel on a deck chair that you are not ready to use, but will return later.

The space infrastructure will eventually depend on the mining of the Belt Belt between Mars and Jupiter. And the orbit of Musk’s Rodster crosses and restores the orbit of Mars when it travels around the sun.

In fact, we know that the future of the moon, Mars, and less than that can be the key part of humanity. Not only for science, trade and military applications, but also for our civilization as a whole.

We have not guessed what we are going to do with all this place, and finally how we will fill it with our humanity. The curious items we send can also be seen as a description of the intent to use the places where they end, even if they are useless.

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