Astronomy:Immortality Drive
The Immortality Drive is a large memory device which was taken to the International Space Station in a Soyuz spacecraft on October 12, 2008. The Immortality Drive contains fully digitized DNA sequences of a select group of humans, such as physicist Stephen Hawking, comedian and talk show host Stephen Colbert, Playboy model Jo Garcia, game designer Richard Garriott, fantasy authors Tracy Hickman and Laura Hickman, pro wrestler Matt Morgan, and athlete Lance Armstrong.[1][2] The microchip also contains a copy of George's Secret Key to the Universe, a 2007 children's book authored by Stephen Hawking and his daughter, Lucy. The Immortality Drive will have a friend in 2025, named the "Eternity Code", containing much the same things, and a cube of Einstein's brain.[citation needed]
The intent of the Immortality Drive is to preserve human DNA in a time capsule, in case some global cataclysm should occur on Earth.
The Immortality Drive was featured in History Channel's Life After People, first-season episode "The Bodies Left Behind".
See also
- List of time capsules
References
- ↑ Immortality Drive from Gender and Technology 2009
- ↑ Immortality Drive: Stephen Colbert to have his DNA sent to space from Welt Online
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