Stephen Colbert will live forever. At least, this is what he hopes. He's giving a digitized copy of his DNA to video game designer Richard Garriott who will take it to the International Space Station for storage."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.
So, if Earth is destroyed (by a meteor strike, alien invasion, nuclear war or whatever other situations can be made into summer blockbuster), we can content ourselves with the fact that aliens will arrive in the aftermath, take the digital DNA and clone Stephen Colbert. They can then enjoy new episodes of The Colbert Report long after Stephen himself is gone.
Why stop at Stephen Colbert? Why not Jon Stewart as well? I guess Colbert doesn't actually like the idea of competition. He wants to dominate the networks on planet Koozebane.
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9-08-2008 @ 11:27AM
StillBash said...
Uh yeah... given that the space station has an apogee of roughly 200 miles and needs constant reboosts because of the high drag of the earth's atmosphere, it is kind of sending a DNA-sample from NY to Jersey on a ferry.
Should we all get wiped out by something (with the earth not exploding Alderaan-style) the ISS will plummet to its fiery death about half a year later.
Ironically shooting his DNA up with a TV-satellite would be better since the geostationary orbit at 36,000km would last a couple of thousand years.
Best idea: put it on the successor to Hubble, the James Webb Space Telescope which will be placed at Lagrange Point L2 (the point in the Earth's shadow where the Sun's and Earth's gravitations cancel each other out). That's about as stationary as it gets.
Yeah... I know... nerd-alert.
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9-08-2008 @ 11:33AM
0megapart!cle said...
Perfect, and then the satellite can house Stephen's DNA as it is beaming episodes of the Colbert Report out into the heavens so the aliens know we are intelligent and witty.
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9-08-2008 @ 2:02PM
mosbutnotall said...
He also needs time-travel to be invented as well it seems.
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9-09-2008 @ 12:49AM
jkchicago said...
Colbert and the Muppets - a perfect combo.
If Koozebane is the intended target for Colbert's DNA, then will the cloning happen via the Galley-o-hoop-hoop?
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