Yes, an intriguing idea. But isn't this what Intelligent Designers have
been saying all along. That our DNA contains information from an
Intelligent Designer, whoever that Designer might be. Remember that
Intelligent Design as a philosophy never claims that the Intelligent
Designer is God.
Why all the hoopla about teaching this basic concept of scientific
curiousity?
Jojo
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jones Beene" <jone...@pacbell.net>
To: <vortex-l@eskimo.com>
Sent: Friday, December 28, 2012 12:31 AM
Subject: RE: [Vo]:Digital information storage in DNA
An intriguing side issue of this ... that is, the general concept of
"DNA-as-information-carrier" - maybe it has been done already, and maybe
we
should be looking for an encoded message which has been here for millions
of
years. Actually there are themes in SciFi which have explored a similar
possibility- that there are messages awaiting us in DNA.
This does not mean require an alien visit per se. Wiki has an article on
"extremophiles" which is the kind of lifeform that could tolerate the cold
and vacuum of space - and possibly be carried to Earth from elsewhere -
PURPOSELY and with encoded messages in unused DNA.
Most known extremophiles are microbes - like the domain Archaea - which
name
says it all.
How would you decode such DNA? Would it mathematical, verbal or more
likely:
some kind of self-teaching format. Here is the start of a possibly way to
transfer with few losses - and with a lot of references to other articles:
http://www.panspermia.org/nongenseq.htm
Jones
From: Jed Rothwell
Not quite as off topic as you might think. I am looking into
this as part of an essay about the history of cold fusion I am writing.
Anyway, see:
http://arep.med.harvard.edu/pdf/Church_Science_12.pdf
This prof. at Harvard, George Church, has been experimenting
with recording data in DNA. He recorded his own book and then read it
back,
with only a few errors. He reproduced it 30 million times, making it "the
biggest best seller in history" in a sense.
