Colbert’s DNA to be sent to space to save humanity
Lara Tomlin for FP If global warming, weapons of mass destruction, or an asteroid eliminate human life on Earth, all will not be lost. Stephen Colbert’s DNA will be there to save the human species. Next month, a digitized copy of Colbert’s DNA will be sent to the International Space Station as part of “Operation ...
Lara Tomlin for FP
If global warming, weapons of mass destruction, or an asteroid eliminate human life on Earth, all will not be lost. Stephen Colbert’s DNA will be there to save the human species.
Next month, a digitized copy of Colbert’s DNA will be sent to the International Space Station as part of “Operation Immortality,” a project of video game designer Richard Garriott. In the event that humans cease to exist, aliens can use the DNA to resurrect Homo sapiens.
Colbert, the satirist who was the winning write-in candidate in FP‘s “World’s Top Public Intellectuals” poll, says he is now even closer to his “lifelong dream” of being the floating fetus at the end of the 1968 science fiction movie 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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