DNA Goes Galactic
Eye on DNA this week reported that Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert is among an elite group of people whose digitized DNA is being sent off into space for the project, Operation Immortality.
Conceived by Richard Garriot, whose claim to fame is creating the Tabula Rasa video game, the goal for the project is to “save a history of humanity’s greatest achievements, digitized human DNA, and personal messages from people all over the world.” This “saved game” is to be delivered and stored on the International Space Station on October 12 by Garriot himself.
Also sending in their digitized DNA are Silicon Valley celebrities Kevin Rose, creator of the social-bookmarking website Digg, Robert Scoble, one of the world’s most popular tech bloggers and Tim Draper, founder of the venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson.
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