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Waveform Cloning
Instead of sending my ashes into space when I die, just encode my DNA into a waveform and transmit it to the stars | |
With a little embedded tag built in saying
"Please look after this human..."
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Ha! I hope his leg gets replaced by half an hour of Classic FM. |
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Want to hire a DJ for your funeral?? |
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Sounds exactly like a cyberpunk novel. Realware by rudy Rucker touches on the possibility of this technology. |
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Not so much Realware to me as another book I read whose title I can't remember... |
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in which people's souls are copied into androids with a 1-day lifespan, that do all the work on earth while everyone lives a life of luxury in their real body.
Somewhere in the book there's a part where a dying person has their soul copied and dumped out through a huge antenna into space, to no result. |
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Oh, that's about the silliest and most paranoid reaction to this idea one could possibly have. |
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But, strangely, it makes perfect sense... |
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On a different note, could you encode your DNA as an mp3? But, once you've heard one, you've heard em all. |
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