In January of 2024, the company Astrobiotic was set to make history with the first privately-developed lander, named Peregrine, to reach the lunar surface, sent aboard a United Launch Alliance's Vulcan Centaur rocket. The lander carried the usual sorts of scientific instruments, many of them developed by NASA and its research partners. But tucked away among all those instruments was a small payload, with spots in that cargo sold by the companies Celestis and Elysium Space.
Well, I’d think an important metric would be “how much space is being set aside for a single religions holy sites”.
For the moon, thats…
About 14,500,000 square miles.
For reference Asia is the largest continent at 17,300,000 and Africa is the second largest at about 11,000,000.
And that’s not even getting into an absolute shit ton of other religions also worship some aspect of the moon and have the same “claim” to be able to say what happens. Or even to say that now that it’s able to be done, they want their ashes to rest on their own most sacred site?
That’s the point between a local small area and the freakin moon.
Exclusivity of “ownership”.