Stephen Colbert's DNA to back up the human race
Stephen Colbert
Should anything happen to Earth, the human race will now be insured.
Comedy Central announced Monday that the host of The Colbert Report will have his DNA digitized and sent to the International Space Station (ISS). According to the Associated Press, Stephen Colbert's gene package will be carried there by famed video game designer Richard Garriott, who will travel to the station in October.
Garriott will deposit the "Immortality Drive," a time capsule that will include human DNA and records of humanity's greatest accomplishments, along with personal messages collected specifically for the project.
This will be the second time Colbert goes intergalactic. In May, he was the first late-night host to interview an astronaut, Garrett Reisman, while he was in space.
In a statement, Stephen Colbert said he was thrilled to have his DNA shot into space, as this would bring him "...one step closer to my lifelong dream of being the baby at the end of 2001," referring to the 1968 sci-fi movie 2001: A Space Odyssey.
In a statement, Garriott said: "In the unlikely event that Earth and humanity are destroyed, mankind can be resurrected with Stephen Colbert's DNA. Is there a better person for us to turn to for this high-level responsibility?"
Stephen Colbert's answer to that rhetorical question would probably be "no."
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and one giant punchline for all mankind....
bringing truthiness to the cosmos.
i just hope that the intergalactic radiation does not turn Steven's clone into some evil mutated form and cause him to lose his humility and no longer be the voice of true conservatives (like me) everywhere.
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