Science Fiction is Dead. So is Satire.
Jul. 30th, 2008 10:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
leahbobetFrom the PlayNC newsletter I just got, being the company that does the administration for my one true digital addiction, City of Heroes:
...they're not kidding. I looked.
They are actually going to sequence someone's DNA to get you to play an MMORPG.
The only appropriate response is O.o
In the not so distant future, the human race is on the verge of extinction, and humanity's last hope may depend on you!
Richard Garriott will board a Russian Soyuz spacecraft bound for the International Space Station on October 12, 2008. While there, he will implement OPERATION IMMORTALITY: a digital archive of mankind's greatest achievements and a snapshot of humanity itself. This archive will be stored on the ISS to serve as a remote "offsite backup" of humanity, should we suffer a fate where, like in Tabula Rasa, mankind must fight for their very survival.
By participating in Operation Immortality, YOU will have a chance to become immortal. All you need to do is pick up a free trial of Tabula Rasa to upload your own personal message to future generations. The character data from all those who play during the month of August 2008 will be uploaded to the Immortality Drive. Lucky winners will be selected every week to have their DNA sequenced and sent to space!
Those who login to TABULA RASA between JULY 30TH and AUGUST 31ST will have their character data and profiles stored on the Immortality Pod, and a few LUCKY WINNERS will also get their DNA DIGITIZED and stored, giving them the chance to be reborn in the far future, to repopulate the human species!
...they're not kidding. I looked.
They are actually going to sequence someone's DNA to get you to play an MMORPG.
The only appropriate response is O.o
