Fuck me, I don’t need DNA prices to spike too ;-;
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So we have the Travelers timeline?
Humanity near extinct by the 2400s?
Is the Director gonna save us?
Something to bear in mind is that this is EXTREMELY slow. It's not practical right now and may never be practical.
Where have I seen this before? Was it Star Trek TNG? Fringe? X-Files? Man, this is really familiar. I seem to remember it not turning out well for the courier.
Cool, but how long does the data keep? DNA is rather fragile, only the most stable bio-compatible storage. Which is why it needs to be repaired now and then.
The Verge did a show on Netflix that covered something like this. I think the show was called The Future Of or something like that.
I only watched a couple episodes but one was about how it could be possible to save data in plants. Pretty cool.
What could possibly go wrong.
is microbial degradation of DNA.
Or radiation. Or chemicals.
What DNA currently out there is dynamically rewritable
All of it? That's pretty much what viruses do to whatever they manage to infect.
So a virus can rewrite a cat in to a dog or a giraffe? You're talking small changes over a long time. A 400TB drive that you can only change 800KB every century or so would be useless.
...no?
I said the mechanism exists. Dna is rewritable by it's very nature-which is what you had issue with: the DNA, not the the thing doing the writing.
At no point did I imply that there's something rewriting entire genomes.
OK buddy. I don't think you're being genuine here so I'm just going to block and move on.
It sounds like you are pulling ideas out of your ass then getting angry about them.
Better block everyone else on Lemmy, too.
Am I to understand that DNA is more stable when it isn't used for life sustaining processes? Perhaps that is why this method of data archival is potentially feasible.
I think about how the body has all sorts of error correction preciesly because dna is vulnerable to being broken. Then though I think about how this is in a warm, growing, and constantly reproducing body and I figure it likely can be more stable in an artificial environment especially if protected from radiation.
Scientific research doesn't need a reason, that's why.
Coming up with reasons is the job of other people, scientific research is about seeing what's possible, what's not, and how difficult it is.
Sweet, when can I become a data courier like Keanu in Johnny Mnemonic? Except in the real world version, I upload my data by jizzing into something. Or someone. 😏
How do you know you're not one already?
Dolph Lungren hasn't tried to kill me.
Imagine you’re just living your life, some aliens fly over, abduct you, probe you and take samples.
“Ah, yes, this lifeform is the one we created to saved the sad-Pluk’tak’un memes in”
Then they release you. Your whole species exists to propagate a folder of memes and alien porn.
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