En réponse à Padraic Brown <pbrown@...>:
> On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Andreas Johansson wrote:
>
> >PPS Somebody suggested that the ultimate method for perserving
> information
> >is to encode it into the junk-DNA of some bacterium. As the bacterium
> >multiplies the information is multiplied, and the inevitable slow
> corruption
> >of the DNA won't mean much since you'll be able to reconstruct the
> original
> >very faithfully if you've got a decent number of bacteria to
> reconstruct
> >from.
>
> And the ability to extract and reconstruct the data! All the smart
> bacteria in the world won't do any good if all you've got left to
> work with are simple tools and rag-tag society.
>
Hehehe... Maybe the junk-DNA of all species on Earth is in fact coded
information from an advanced civilization :))) (didn't Star Trek: TNG use this
idea in one of its episodes?)
Christophe.
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