Immortality drive will be mortal in just 5 year. Reason to launch the project is just to save human DNA if some thing happen to earth and human on earth. The idea is seem to a joke on tax payer expense. Costly 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 however that spacecraft will not last more than 5 year if mankind disappear on earth.
I have just watched a rerun special on the history channel, called Life After People. Essentially, the show digitally illustrates what the world will be like 1 day, 1 year, 3 years, 9 years, 50 years, etc etc. After people are no longer living on earth. This show proposed that just one day after people, every power plant shuts down– we need people to maintain them. The lights are off, and technology as we know it is on the decline. This episode in particular was about what will happen to the bodies that are left behind: mummies, cryogenically frozen embryos, cryogenically frozen people, and human DNA altogether. I was so intrigued, I’ve changed the topic of my multimedia project completely; I will be focusing on the technology that humans have used and are currently used to “cheat death”. Many researchers agree that humans have an immortality drive that drives us to find ways to live the longest, preserve our genes, and preserve our species, by any means possible. Life After People also showcased a literal Immortality drive. Richard Garriot, the game developer that coined the term MMORPG with Tabula Rasa and Ultima, has created an Immortality Drive, or a microchip that is encoded with the DNA sequence of a few carefully chosen individuals. This list includes: Physicist Stephen Hawkins, Comdeian Stephen Colbert, Venture Capital founder Tim Draper, and Playboy Playmate Jo Garcia. Quite the… eclectic mix.
Are these the people that are agreed to influence our society now? or are these people that someone honestly believes should be what we leave’behind’ as a trace of humanity? Garriot, who traveled to the international space station to deliver the drive, has said that his hopes are that the next generation of beings that follow our existence will encounter these DNA sequences and be able to clone humans, thus extending humanity. Although this is an outrageous thought, which apparently a LOT of money has been put into, I can’thelp but think that its all a big joke. I guess the aliens will have the last laugh either way…
List of People on Immortality Drive
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.
The comedian’s DNA will be digitized and sent to the International Space Station, video game designer Richard Garriott will travel to the station and deposit Colbert’s genes for an 'Immortality Drive'. "I am thrilled to have my DNA shot into space, as this brings me one step closer to my lifelong dream of being the baby at the end of 2001,“ Colbert said in a statement, referring to the 1968 landmark science fiction film '2001: A Space Odyssey'. Garriott, one of few private citizens to travel into space, is collecting material for a time capsule of human DNA, a history of humanity’s greatest achievements and personal messages.
The host of 'The Colbert Report' will essentially be preserved so that aliens can clone him.
"In the unlikely event that Earth and humanity are destroyed, mankind can be resurrected with Stephen Colbert’s DNA,“ Garriott said in a statement. "Is there a better person for us to turn to for this high-level responsibility?"
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