{"id":2095,"date":"2008-10-19T19:04:25","date_gmt":"2008-10-19T19:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2095"},"modified":"2008-10-19T19:04:25","modified_gmt":"2008-10-19T19:04:25","slug":"legacy_code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2095","title":{"rendered":"Legacy Code"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Garriott, a video game designer, hitched a ride to the International Space Station with the Russians earlier this week. He brought with him a <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/funny_pages_20\/2008\/10\/a-plan-for-arma.html\">hard drive containing the digitized DNA sequences<\/a> of both celebrities (including Stephen Colbert and a Playboy model) and ordinary schmucks. The idea is that, in the event of some planetary calamity that wipes out the human race, a &#8220;backup copy&#8221; of human genetic information will be kept safe in orbit. <\/p>\n<p>Of course, nobody asked me for any of my DNA. Which is too bad, because I&#8217;m having a lot of fun imagining aliens trying to recreate me from scratch: <\/p>\n<p>NARG: Hey, Zerl, c&#8217;mere and look at this. <\/p>\n<p>ZERL: What is it?<\/p>\n<p>NARG: Come here and look at the specimen in Vat 42. Does that look right to you? <\/p>\n<p>ZERL: Hmm, it is scrawnier than the others. Are you sure you didn&#8217;t get the sequence wrong? <\/p>\n<p>NARG: No, I checked that. It&#8217;s the exact same sequence that we found in that primitive archive.<\/p>\n<p>ZERL: Strange. Well, let it mature and then stick it in the cage with that oddly proportioned female. It might cheer her up.<\/p>\n<p>NARG: Can&#8217;t we just eat its brains? I mean, look at that ginormous head.<\/p>\n<p>ZERL: A tempting thought. Perhaps later, after the female grows tired of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Garriott, a video game designer, hitched a ride to the International Space Station with the Russians earlier this week. He brought with him a hard drive containing the digitized DNA sequences of both celebrities (including Stephen Colbert and a Playboy model) and ordinary schmucks. The idea is that, in the event of some planetary <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2095' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-xN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}