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NASA sent a scientist’s ashes crashing into the Moon

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Why settle for a cemetery when you can rest eternally in a crater? NASA intentionally crashed a probe carrying his ashes into the lunar surface, making him the supreme champion of extreme, non-consensual eternal social distancing.

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