Is it possible to teleport myself somewhere else? Well, perhaps it is in an unusual kind of way.

I came across a UK based company called DNA Art www.dna-art.co.uk who offer you the chance to own a unique representation of yourself or loved one, using DNA. You send them a sample of your DNA (which you obtain with a swab from your cheek) and they analyse it and convert it into a piece of art that you can hang on your wall.

Now I like this idea as it’s art that you can really relate to, it looks really cool, and it doesn’t get much more personal than this.

At SentForever, we are sending people’s messages of love into deep space where they travel for the rest of eternity. What if we sent a digital representation of your DNA into deep space too? Could you at some time in the future be recreated from this DNA map?

I know they don’t have the technology to recreate someone from a map of their DNA right now, but I’m pretty confident that they will have this capability in the not too distant future.

Now a gloomy bit. Did you know that the sun can’t keep shining forever? It will eventually burn up all the hydrogen and helium it uses to shine and will expand to become what is known as a red giant star. It will grow so large that it will consume the Earth and destroy every last trace of mankind and all life forms.

This won’t happen for several hundred million years, so there’s no need to panic, but imagine if the only re-constructible record of mankind was the SentForever DNA maps that people had transmitted into deep space many years earlier.

Maybe you want to use SentForever to transmit your DNA into the future – or perhaps you want to do something a little more down-to-earth by sending a special message that will last forever. It’s your choice.

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