World of the Bizarre

Man wants to send his DNA to the Moon so that aliens can clone him

By T.K. Randall
December 19, 2023 ·  10 comments

Would you want your ashes sent to the Moon ? Image Credit: Pixabay / Ponciano How would you like to be remembered after you are gone ? Chances are, being cloned by an alien race and then put on display in a cosmic zoo wasn't the answer you were going for.

Enter Professor Ken Ohm, a physicist who has signed up to be the latest person whose ashes will be flown to the Moon by Celestis - a company that specializes in flying human ashes into space.

The Texas-based firm's previous clients included Star Trek actor James Doohan, planetary geologist Eugene Shoemaker and astronaut Gordon Cooper.

82-year-old Ohm, who always wanted to be an astronaut but was denied the opportunity because he was too tall, has signed up to have some of his DNA flown to the lunar south pole.

The reasons for this are twofold.For one, he envisages in the future that his family will be able to gaze up at the Moon and think about the fact that he's up there.

The second reason, is that he wants either advanced future humans or an alien race to eventually use his DNA to create clones of him that could be put on display in zoos all across the cosmos.

"[I've] considered the prospect of an intergalactic zoo with a Ken Ohm in a cage, or - much more frightening - a swarm of thousands of reconstituted Ken Ohms spreading across the universe," he told the New York Times.

While his comments are most likely tongue-in-cheek, it does raise the question - what would an alien race do if they happened to find a cache of human DNA on the Moon ?

The idea that they might try to create a clone is perhaps not as far-fetched as it seems.

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