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06-26-2007, 10:44 AM | #1 |
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dear friends,
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/26/sc...in&oref=slogin be well, be love. david human dna, the ultimate spot for secret messages (are some there now?) by dennis overbye in douglas adams’s science fiction classic, “the hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy,” there is a character by the name of slartibartfast, who designed the fjords of norway and left his signature in a glacier. i was reminded of slartibartfast recently as i was trying to grasp the implications of the feat of a team of japanese geneticists who announced that they had taught relativity to a bacterium, sort of. using the same code that computer keyboards use, the japanese group, led by masaru tomita of keio university, wrote four copies of albert einstein’s famous formula, e=mc2, along with “1905,” the date that the young einstein derived it, into the bacterium’s genome, the 400-million-long string of a’s, g’s, t’s and c’s that determine everything the little bug is and everything it’s ever going to be. the point was not to celebrate einstein. the feat, they said in a paper published in the journal biotechnology progress, was a demonstration of dna as the ultimate information storage material, able to withstand floods, terrorism, time and the changing fashions in technology, not to mention the ability to be imprinted with little unobtrusive trademark labels — little “made by monsanto” tags, say. |
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06-26-2007, 05:31 PM | #2 |
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as always, what gets me when i read anything about genetic manipulation is this concept of "junk dna", as if nature and creation made something wasteful and useless. my word, how silly! it would be nice if we could get past this trip that rules the scientific community by-and-large, wherein if we can't define something within our accepted theories, then it basically doesn't exist. sometimes i feel like mainstream science has their fingers in their ears and they're loudly saying "nahnahnahnahnah i can't hear you nahnahnahnah!"
while there may be those "out there" capable of working with those codes i don't trust our "well, let's just poke a stick at it" kind of scientific approach, and less yet the approach of "how can we make a profit/have control over others with this?" is not dna essentially the holographic template of this entire existence? don't magical new realms open as those "junk dna" codes receive new influx of energy? and isn't that what is coming up circa 2012?! i'd rather they don't mess with my (within this appearance of space/time) as of yet un-activated dna coding (or any other being's within this density), but they're definitely on track! only thing is they need to try their stuff on clean data storage units. ours are already fully encoded. |
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06-26-2007, 09:25 PM | #3 |
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