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Should this world ever lay off to survive, Stephen Colbert will live on. The comedian's DNA will be digitized and sent to the International Space Station, Comedy Central was to announce Monday. In October, video plot designer Richard Garriott testament travel to the place and deposition 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 dreaming of being the baby at the end of 2001," Colbert said in a statement, referring to the 1968 landmark scientific discipline 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 superlative achievements and personal messages.
The host of "The Colbert Report" testament 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 aforesaid in a statement. "Is there a better someone for us to turn to for this upper-level responsibility?"
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