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Storing All The Worlds Information In DNA

by lanfear63
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Watch the video at the top of the page after the obligatory ad.

BBC - Future - This is how to store human knowledge for eternity

It has been discovered that you can store all the worlds information and history encoded in a small amount of test-tubes of DNA and retrieve it, But, you have to fossilize the DNA in glass to keep it long term.

Hard drives, disks, cd's are of course painfully finite. Not a long term solution.

Fascinating stuff.
  • Profile picture of the author tagiscom
    Yes, but l would stay with atomic scale, crystal embedding.

    Well, when they invent it?


    Not crazy about some descendants finding a small room of crystallized, snot!

    Probably need a diamond sign saying, " this is not snot"!

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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    So what happens when you lose all the information for processing DNA?

    If you hand an illiterate person a book it doesn't do them much good without being able to process the info.
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    • Profile picture of the author lanfear63
      Originally Posted by yukon View Post

      So what happens when you lose all the information for processing DNA?

      If you hand an illiterate person a book it doesn't do them much good without being able to process the info.
      That's a very good point. Nothing is foolproof or lasts forever. A huge thick rock fortress with instructions deeply etched into rock, even rock wears away.We may lose the ability to read. Eventually it may be down to visiting aliens to read our history if they ever show.
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  • Profile picture of the author Princess Balestra
    All I know is, 10,000 years from now, someone gonna figure where I put my frickin' phone charger.

    Roll on the IoT an' wireless power.
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  • Profile picture of the author butters
    It would be cool if you could then implant that into humans so we know everything.
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    • Profile picture of the author yukon
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      Originally Posted by butters View Post

      It would be cool if you could then implant that into humans so we know everything.
      Are you suggesting we clone Claude?
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      • Profile picture of the author Princess Balestra
        Originally Posted by yukon View Post

        Are you suggesting we clone Claude?
        The logistics here are impossible.

        The globe only got room for one Circumference Doom.
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        Originally Posted by yukon View Post

        Are you suggesting we clone Claude?
        Anyone who suggests that should be banned immediately. From the human race.
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    • Profile picture of the author Claude Whitacre
      Originally Posted by butters View Post

      It would be cool if you could then implant that into humans so we know everything.

      You mean know everything that we know?

      Implanting information in DNA doesn't mean we will know everything, just that we'll keep knowing what we know now.

      I'm messing with you. I know you meant "access everything humans know"
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    I saw this movie. Earth barely survived, but Superman did get to bang Lois so everything turned out ok.
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    • Profile picture of the author lanfear63
      Originally Posted by Jack Gordon View Post

      I saw this movie. Earth barely survived, but Superman did get to bang Lois so everything turned out ok.
      Superman had to lose his powers to have relations with a human. Otherwise he would have torn her limb from limb. The downside of being a superhero.
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      • Profile picture of the author Princess Balestra
        Originally Posted by lanfear63 View Post

        Superman had to lose his powers to have relations with a human. Otherwise he would have torn her limb from limb. The downside of being a superhero.
        That is real grisly.
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