>>I thought so too. Can hardly recognize him. They say they confirmed his identity with DNA. They didn't mention where they found the older sample, for comparison.
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>The DNA can be founded on his dead suns..
Yes, and probably there are a lot of personal objects, that may contain DNA samples - or perhaps souvenirs like hair.
For a well-known person, this shouldn't be a problem. But I would have found it interesting to include this detail in the news item.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
