An 86-year-old American recently sent his DNA into space in the hopes that aliens would clone him and represent the human species in an intergalactic zoo, the New York Times reports.
Kenneth Ohm, a retired physics professor, did business with the company Celestis, which has been sending private cargo into space since 1994.
Over the years, the company has launched a total of 17 commemorative space flights. These are usually loaded with the human ashes of people whose remains wanted to be sent into space.
Sometimes cargo is launched into orbit around the Earth, sometimes it is launched into space with no specific destination in mind. In other cases they are aimed at the moon.
This is the case with DNA samples from Kenneth Ohm; He hopes that alien life forms will find his genes, clone him and he will find himself in some kind of intergalactic zoo.
The octogenarian even joked that he dreamed of being cloned more than 1,000 times so that the universe would be flooded with copies of him.