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 information for the > longest period of time.
This assumes the insert doesn't result in negative fitness (could very well be, if the insert kills a gene). Also, a fitness-neutral insert is likely to be lost, or severely garbled. I hope very much he used a really good redundant encoding.
