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What if our DNA is actually embeded code left by aliens?
Posted on 3/2/17 at 8:35 pm
Posted on 3/2/17 at 8:35 pm
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Not really the premise of the article, but I just got to thinking.
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The world is churning out so much data that hard-drives may not be able to keep up, leading researchers to look at DNA as a possible storage medium. DNA is ultra compact, and doesn’t degrade over time like cassettes and CDs. In a new study, Yaniv Erlich and Dina Zielinskidemonstrate DNA’s full potential and reliability for storing data. The researchers wrote six files—a full computer operating system, a 1895 French film, an Amazon gift card, a computer virus, a Pioneer plaque, and a study by information theorist Claude Shannon—into 72,000 DNA strands, each 200 bases long. They then used sequencing technology to retrieve the data, and software to translate the genetic code back into binary. The files were recovered with no errors. We spoke with Erlich about the results, and what they mean for the future of data storage.
Not really the premise of the article, but I just got to thinking.
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Posted on 3/2/17 at 8:36 pm to KosmoCramer
Then those aliens did some shotty work.
Posted on 3/2/17 at 8:38 pm to ksayetiger
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Then those aliens did some shotty work.
Well that's why the engineers were going to return to Earth and unleash the black goo that mutates to Xenomorphs.
Posted on 3/2/17 at 8:39 pm to KosmoCramer
Then frick them aliens for only giving me an average penis.
Posted on 3/2/17 at 8:39 pm to KosmoCramer
Posted on 3/2/17 at 8:39 pm to KosmoCramer
There was an episode of Ancient Aliens devoted to this topic. I don't remember the exact numbers but they said our DNA is capable of storing millions upon millions of terabytes of data.
This post was edited on 3/2/17 at 8:46 pm
Posted on 3/2/17 at 8:39 pm to KosmoCramer
Bookmarking to read later. That's pretty cool. I know some people in the big data world. It's all far beyond my comprehension.
Posted on 3/2/17 at 8:39 pm to KosmoCramer
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What if our DNA is actually embeded code left by aliens?
Xenu would have told us through his prophet, Tom Cruise.
Posted on 3/2/17 at 8:40 pm to KosmoCramer
In the grand scheme of our existence our intelligence made a major spike in a short time so I could see that happening and be the reason.
Posted on 3/2/17 at 8:41 pm to KosmoCramer
They had to write a computer virus into our DNA? Fricking A*holes. That's where the aliens probably went wrong too
Posted on 3/2/17 at 8:43 pm to KosmoCramer
Your alien ancestors must be retarded
Posted on 3/2/17 at 9:19 pm to KosmoCramer
Well, the article itself was cool.
Posted on 3/2/17 at 9:20 pm to KosmoCramer
Let me go smoke a bowl or two and get back with you.
Posted on 3/2/17 at 9:23 pm to djangochained
The odds of human life existing is so minuscule that scientists are starting to believe more in a design. It is interesting to think about where we may have came from.
Posted on 3/2/17 at 9:37 pm to KosmoCramer
Wasn't there a Star Trek: TNG episode about this? Humans, Vulcans, Romulans - all found out that they were engineered descendants of some super race that died out a billion years ago.
Posted on 3/2/17 at 10:18 pm to KosmoCramer
Your DNA is code. Your genome, your individual set of DNA, is an instruction manual to build and then maintain the operation of your body. It is a code. Everything your body does, make antibodies, make digestive enzymes when you eat, make new skin when you scrape your knee, results from a signal or instruction sent by a gene composed of DNA.
Posted on 3/2/17 at 10:40 pm to Coach Yo
It's absolutely mind boggling when you think about the intelligence and sophistication of what ever being created humans. Whether it's aliens or a spiritual being, it's just beyond comprehension.
Posted on 3/2/17 at 10:50 pm to emoney
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The odds of human life existing is so minuscule that scientists are starting to believe more in a design
Lol. Link?
Posted on 3/2/17 at 10:55 pm to meeple
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black goo
Posted on 3/3/17 at 12:15 am to KosmoCramer
who did the aliens DNA?
life is a Mystery.
life is a Mystery.
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