The Immortality Drive is a data carrier on which, among other things, the digital copies of a children's book and the genetic fingerprints of some celebrities were deposited. British computer game pioneer Richard Garriott brought the Immortality Drive to the International Space Station on his 2008 space tourist flight, where it has remained ever since.[1]
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The Immortality Drive, on board the International Space Station, is featured in The Bodies Left Behind.
While human DNA on Earth didn't survive 1 month after people, 200 miles above Earth in the International Space Station where the Immortality Drive lay rest. The episode provide information, it was delivered into orbit in October 2008 and contains digitalized DNA information of highly eclectic group. These include physicist Stephen Hawking, comedian Stephen Colbert, and Playboy model Jo Garcia. It was created by Richard Garriott, a video game designer from Houston who thinks that aliens one day might use the DNA data to reconstruct the extinct human species.
In 3 years after people, its fate is sealed when the International Space Station loses 2 miles of altitude each month and drops from its original height of 200 miles to below 160 miles causing an acceleration of the orbital decline till it re-enters the atmosphere where air and friction meet gravity. The International Space Station burns up and breaks apart during its descent into Earth's atmosphere, still carrying the Immortality Drive. The final destruction of the Immortality Drive occurs when the remaining pieces of the ISS slam into Houston, destroying both in spectacular style.
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