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The Immortality Drive in Orbit: A Guarantee For Our Survival?

Posted by ralph on April 22, 2009

Still fascinating, this happened in October 2008 when the “immortality drive” was brought onboard the International Space Station. I caught it mentioned on the new series Life After People. As Reported by ABC News:

The Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft carrying Richard Garriott and two crewmates — and the digitized DNA sequences of some of the world’s most famous minds — hurtled into a clear blue sky from the Baikonur facility on the Kazakh steppe.

The spacecraft is bearing the digitized DNA sequences of some of the world’s greatest thinkers and musicians — as well as athletes, video game players and others.

The eclectic list ranges from famed physicist Stephen Hawking to comedian Stephen Colbert and Matt Morgan, best known as the “Beast” from the U.S. television show American Gladiators.

The digitized DNA is part of “the immortality drive,” a kind of time capsule that will also include a list of humanity’s greatest achievements and personal messages from Earth. The program will be stored on the space station in case calamity were to one day wipe out the planet.

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  • Sultansam

    So the future of humans are going to be a bunch of hot, smart and funny people who are paralyzed. Sounds great

  • SomeGuy123

    That’s ridiculous.  I could see people like engineers and physicists and scientists, but I can’t see models and actors and useless people who think they’re so important they deserve to have their DNA launched off into space, on the tiny infinitesimal chance they might be reconstituted by some alien one day.  Yeah right…like some alien is going to reconstitute comedians and Playboy models.  Wake the hell up out of your egos, ya bunch of losers.

  • Someguy321

    Yeah, if these egomaniacal a-holes have their way it would.  Pricks.