Article: Arthur C Clarke's DNA embarks on space odyssey

THE SCIENCE fiction author who has captured the world's imagination with his Space Odyssey is determined to go where no man has gone before in the year 2001.

Sir Arthur C Clarke, the 83-year-old author who lives in Sri Lanka, is to send samples of his DNA into space in the hope that they will be intercepted by alien beings who can create clones.

Encounter 2001, based in Houston, is sending six strands of the writer's hair into orbit with a tape-recording of his voice which says: "This is not Arthur Clarke, this is a clone."

He said yesterday: "One day, some super-civilisation may encounter this relic from a vanished species and I may exist in another time

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