At 10:23 AM 11/24/2002 -0600, Neil Johnson wrote:
(Referring to previous thread about capturing video.)
As I sit here looking at a 64 MB SD Card that I just picked up for $28 at my
local Wally World, I was wondering why it (or it is larger capacity brethren)
couldn't be used to record video and
At 10:12 PM 11/24/02 +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote:
On Sun, 24 Nov 2002, Tyler Durden wrote:
I believe Daniel Hillis (or was it Jaron Lanier?) inserted
time-capsule
information into a cockroach's DNA and released it into the Boston
subways.
He calculated that this would be the way to preserve
On Sun, 24 Nov 2002, Morlock Elloi wrote:
Isn't all snail mail already irradiated ? Then soon.
It's not, because electron accelerators are a) expensive b) tend to damage
mail.
Besides, the few ug or ng dry DNA in the microdot is not a living being.
It can remain readable at ridiculously
couldn't be used to record video and then (after appropriate protection)
swallowed.
Eventually this will happen. Maybe a video recorded into a DNA of a bacteria
synthesized in a portable device (diamond age, anyone ?)
Ne protocols will be required (if I infect this east coast girl, how long
This assumes the insert doesn't result in negative fitness (could very
well be, if the insert kills a gene).
If the information is the history of human civilization, that may very well
end up being information of great negative fitness! (We shall see...)
Actually, from what I understand, there
