Now this may seem like a story straight out of the tabloids but it’s actually true.

According to CTV.ca Stephen Colbert is sending his DNA into outer space.

Colbert is the host of the widely popular satirical news show, “The Colbert Report”.

Colbert’s DNA will be digitized and sent to the International Space Station where it will be included in Richard Garriott’s “Immortality Drive”.

Garriott, a video game designer and one of the few private citizens to have gone into space, is collecting material for a time capsule of human DNA,

Garriott said in a statement, “In the unlikely event that Earth and humanity are destroyed, mankind can be resurrected with Stephen Colbert’s DNA.”

Colbert says that he’s “thrilled” to have his DNA sent to space.






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