Should this world ever terminate to survive, Stephen Colbert will alive on.
On Monday, Comedy Central will announce plans to digitize the comedian's DNA and send it to the International Space Station.
, In October, video game designer Richard Garriott testament travel to the station and deposit Colbert's genes for an "Immortality Drive."
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 sterling achievements and personal messages.
The host of "The Colbert Report" testament essentially be preserved so that aliens can dead ringer him.
Garriott aforesaid there ar few better candidates to turn to in the unlikely event that humanity is destroyed and necessarily to be resurrected.
"I am thrilled to have my DNA dead reckoning into space, as this brings me one step closer to my womb-to-tomb dream of being the baby at the death of 2001," Colbert aforesaid in a statement, referring to the 1968 watershed science fiction film "2001: A Space Odyssey."
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