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 Send to email | Richard Garriott Wants Your DNA! [Play Tabula Rasa, Live Forever] in Play tabula rasa, live forever International Space Station richard garriott Tabula Rasa Top |  By Brian Crecente
el 30-Jul-2008 |  Richard Garriott is going to have 40 gamers with him when he travels to the International Space Station in October. But the lucky clutch of gamers won't be there in person, but rather in digital DNA.
NCsoft kicked off a contest today which will select five sets of eight gamers to have a digital form of their DNA sent into space with Garriott. The DNA will be stored on an "Immortality Drive", which will also house a digital archive of mankind's greatest achievements. The device will be stored on the International Space Station as a sort of "offsite backup" of humanity, NCsoft says. ?I?ve been able to do some very exciting things in the games business, but nothing of this magnitude,? said Garriott, executive producer for Tabula Rasa at NCsoft. ?I?m thrilled we can offer the once in a lifetime chance to millions of gamers to virtually go to space with me. A select few will have their DNA digitized and sent. And, theoretically, if anything happens to the human race, it could be their DNA that is used to resurrect humanity." But what happens with that DNA if and when you win? 
NCsoft, likely aware of the many legal implications of having a batch of DNA floating about anywhere other than real space, promises that they will keep the results of the DNA sequencing anonymous and that not ever the lucky gamers will get a copy of it. Instead a licensed genetics lab will digitize the results and upload the code directly to the Immortality Drive. The contest, which requires you to open a Tabula Rasa account, even a free trial, kicked off today and runs through the end of August. To enter just visit the site and participate in teh weekly polls on humanity's greatest achievements, the results of which will be included on the drive, perhaps with your DNA. DNA? Space? Hasn't Garriott learned anything from Dr. Who? All we need are some cosmic rays or errant meteor and we're all doomed, dooooooomed! Operation Immortality
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| Richard Garriott Wants Your DNA! [Play Tabula Rasa, Live Forever] | | Richard Garriott is going to have 40 gamers with him when he travels to the International Space Station in October. But the lucky clutch of gamers won't be there in person, but rather in digital DNA. NCsoft kicked off a contest today which will select five sets [..] Read complete article | | Published 30-Jul-2008 by Brian Crecente in Play tabula rasa, live forever International Space Station richard garriott Tabula Rasa Top
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| Richard Garriott Bids Farewell To NCsoft [Richard Garriott] | | Man, a guy fulfills his lifelong dream of going into space and suddenly has more important things to do than work on his video game? Richard "Lord British" Garriott announced today that he will be leaving NCsoft, the company behind his recent MMORPG Tabula Rasa, to pursue other interests [..] Read complete article | | Published 11-Nov-2008 by Mike Fahey in richard garriott lord british Ncsoft News Tabula Rasa Top
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| Richard Garriott is back on Terra Firma | | Filed under: PC, RPGs
Praise the Eloh! Richard Garriott/Lord British, creator of Tabula Rasa and the Ultima series has returned to Earth after his 12-day-long journey into space. You sensed it when he reent [..] Read complete article | | Published 25-Oct-2008 by Justin McElroy in lord-britishrichard-garriott
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| Richard Garriott to leave NCsoft |  Filed under: PC, MMO
Boy, a guy takes one flight to space and suddenly he's too good for all of us earth-bound jerks. Tabula Rasa creator and semi-professional spaceman Richard Garriott recently revealed that his fligh [..] Read complete article | | Published 11-Nov-2008 by Justin McElroy in ncsoftrichard-garriotttabula-rasa
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| Watch Richard Garriott get shot into space |  Filed under: PC, MMO
After finishing Tabula Rasa, Richard Garriott decided to take a break from reaping the adoration of the game's dozens of fans to be (literally) shot into space. Video of his flight was released [..] Read complete article | | Published 15-Oct-2008 by Justin McElroy in richard-garriotttabula-rasa
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| Tabula Rasa Doing Just Fine, Thanks [MMORPG Survivor] | | Phew! And here we were all worried that Richard Garriott's latest MMO endeavor was doomed to failure! NCsoft has been in touch with Eurogamer to assure them that everything is rosy in the world of TR, with things looking up every day. "Tabula Rasa offers players a different kind of MM [..] Read complete article | | Published 11-Jun-2008 by Mike Fahey in MMORPG Survivor Mmorpg Ncsoft News PC Tabula Rasa
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| Tabula Rasa shutting down on Feb. 28 |  Filed under: PC, MMO, Business
We kind of knew that Tabula Rasa's run wasn't going to end all that well. And it will end ... on Feb. 28, 2009. This comes after months of reports concerning the NCsoft MMO's poor perf [..] Read complete article | | Published 21-Nov-2008 by Randy Nelson in breakingnewsncsoftrichard-garriotttabula-rasa
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| Tabula Rasa Going All FPS On Us [Tabula Rasa] | | One of my main complaints with Tabula Rasa was that it felt like a shooter trying to be a 3rd person MMO. How does NCsoft address such complaints? By introducing a first-person shooter mode, of course! Revealed in the latest edition o [..] Read complete article | | Published 03-Nov-2008 by Mike Fahey in Tabula Rasa Fps Mmorpg Ncsoft News
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Wherefore art thou, Tabula Rasa? Though we knew the title's been a bit slow to start, we were still a shocked when Richard Garriott's MMO was largely absent from publisher NCSoft's Q1 [..] 
