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Well, I've always been curious what a ruthless person would do with all that DNA data. I'll finally find out.
Church of Latter Day Saints will probably buy it. They believe they can convert the dead.
They can’t possibly be that stupid. I’m sure they have more sinister plans for these geneology databases. My first guess would be blackmail. But I’m guessing they have a ton of other evil ideas.
LDS has a ton of money. They already have some kind of deal with ancestry.com and own familysearch.com.
Yeah even before those websites existed, they were collecting all kinds of files on people. Like late 80s, early 90s. Warehouses full of paper records.
Easy. Health insurers will pay top dollar for it
It's more a matter of crazy than stupid, I think.
Don't know why tho, since they believe only 144k people will be saved
why do they need DNA for that?
You ever play Assassin's Creed?