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Article: Arthur C Clarke's DNA embarks on space odyssey
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 2, 2001
- Author:
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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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