In case of a world apocalypse, Stephen Colbert will live on. Not only in our hearts and souls, but also in the International Space Station as his DNA is going to be digitized and sent up there.
Video Game designer Richard Garriott will be the one taking Colbert's genes to the space station 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 is one of the few citizens to travel into space, and he is collecting material for a human gene pool time capsule, that will display the history of humanity's greatest accomplishments 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 stated. "Is there a better person for us to turn to for this high-level responsibility?"
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