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boem@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months ago

All the Data on Earth Can Fit in a Cup Full of DNA. This Is MIT’s Jurassic Park-Inspired Project

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All the Data on Earth Can Fit in a Cup Full of DNA. This Is MIT’s Jurassic Park-Inspired Project

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boem@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months ago
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DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is the molecule of life. While there are other essential molecules for life as we know it, DNA holds a special significance...
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    Just be careful you don’t store the cup on earth, else it would have to contain itself.

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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      Plus, a cat’s probably going to knock it off the table.

      …wait, is that what earthquakes are???

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        Technically speaking, can’t any impact with the ground be considered an earthquake?

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      Set of all sets

    • InnerScientist@lemmy.world
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      That’s fine as long as it can self reference.

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      I’m less worried about it containing itself, and more worried about what the two girls holding the cup want to do with it.

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    Damn it’s gonna take me a while to make a whole cup but I’ll get started

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      I can lend a helping hand. 😘

  • MonkderDritte@feddit.de
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    And has data integrity for a few hours, if no mechanism to constantly repair them (almost correctly) exist.

    Spoiler

    I hint at ribosomes RNA polymerase here.

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      This was my thought. DNA isn’t stable so it’s a lousy storage medium. Degrades over time, mutations in living organisms, etc.

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      How would the thing in your spoiler repair DNA?

      • CoggyMcFee@lemmy.world
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        Tap for spoiler

        🤷

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        My, i’m getting old. I meant RNA polymerase.

        Btw, i came across this article while searching for the right term.

  • Rob T Firefly@lemmy.world
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    This Is MIT’s Jurassic Park-Inspired Project

    They did get to the end of that story, right?

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      The scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, that they never stopped to ask if they should finish watching the movie

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    This would work well with the dna fountain encoding method

    https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2016/12/04/074237.full.pdf

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