After watching Life after People: The Series' first episode, "The Bodies Left Behind" (downloaded it to my XB360), I checked up on this thing.

ABC News: "US Game Designer Blasts Into Space With DNA Cargo"

Crazy old Lord British never ceases to freak me out... Well, as long as humans exist it would stay immortal, but I think they should copy the thing and send them out with any new space probes with destinations out of the system as well as dropping off a copy on the moon and on Mars as well.