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DNA Storage

JordanCClarkJordanCClark Posts: 198
edited 2013-02-01 12:48 in General Discussion
Shakespeare's sonnets and more stored on a strand of DNA...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324539304578259883507543150.html

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  • prof_brainoprof_braino Posts: 4,313
    edited 2013-02-01 06:57
    What if they send the data strand to the sheep cloning lab by mistake? Poetic lamb-chops? What would Sheri Lewis say?
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2013-02-01 07:17
    Penalties for copyright violation include the destruction of all illegitimate copies of the copyrighted work. I'm afraid we have to destroy all your lamb-chops.

    God forbid they find copies of Windows 8 encoded into cloned humans one day....
  • mindrobotsmindrobots Posts: 6,506
    edited 2013-02-01 08:35
    Heater. wrote: »
    God forbid they find copies of Windows 8 encoded into cloned humans one day....

    They would be the ones whose faces turned blue every couple of day?? :lol:
  • Beau SchwabeBeau Schwabe Posts: 6,566
    edited 2013-02-01 08:46
    "God forbid they find copies of Windows 8 encoded into cloned humans one day.... " - I would be more worried about automatic upgrades when I tried to shut down and go to sleep. :-)

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  • LoopyBytelooseLoopyByteloose Posts: 12,537
    edited 2013-02-01 09:45
    Gads... I've abused my DNA enough. And now they want to use it to store data?

    Windows may never let you sleep. You just may get a message telling you 'Nope, not yet... just wait.... ..... ..... ... ...

    Solution? Linux
  • skylightskylight Posts: 1,915
    edited 2013-02-01 10:20
    We are getting closer and closer to the meaning of life, are we all just storage for snippets of code in some gigantic cosmic program? Do we actually have a pupose?
    Life sometimes goes wrong just like errors in a program, And the decisions we make perhaps are not as free as we think but part of the grand way of things.
  • prof_brainoprof_braino Posts: 4,313
    edited 2013-02-01 12:34
    skylight wrote: »
    We are getting closer and closer to the meaning of life, are we all just storage for snippets of code in some gigantic cosmic program? Do we actually have a pupose?

    The answer you are looking for is 42, I believe. I don't know the proper question though.
  • skylightskylight Posts: 1,915
    edited 2013-02-01 12:46
    prof_braino wrote: »
    The answer you are looking for is 42, I believe. I don't know the proper question though.
    :smile: Yes perhaps you are right? As long as the vogons don't decide to build their intergalactic highway that is!
  • JordanCClarkJordanCClark Posts: 198
    edited 2013-02-01 12:48
    skylight wrote: »
    :smile: Yes perhaps you are right? As long as the vogons don't decide to build their intergalactic highway that is!
    I'm just trying to stay away from their poetry...
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