On 9 May 2015 at 3:36, Richard Aiken wrote:

>
> On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 1:20 AM, <xxxxxx@shadowgard.com> wrote:
>     The real limits on an "airless" world are carbon, hydrogen and
>     nitrogen. All tend to go away if you are that sort of planet. So
>     they'll want to grab every bit of those they can from visitors, and
>     hunt aggressively for any ice, ammonia or methane deposits created
>     impacts of cometary fragments and carbonaceous chondrites.
>
> And EVERYTHING organic goes into the recycling system. So their
> funerary customs would REALLY upset most outsiders.

Given that you want *lots* of biomass in the recycling, and that one
of the better ways of dealing with sewage is a series of artifical
marrshes (and works at *really* low tech), it's quite likely that
they'd bury the dead in the first or second marsh.

That's unlikely to shock anybody. Welll, ther *smell* might...

Not sure if they'd have to dig upo the graves after a period of tiome
and do something to "encourage" the bones to break down though.

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