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- From: jlamb@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Jeffrey Richard Lamb)
- Newsgroups: rec.puzzles
- Subject: Re: Billion-Year Survivability
- Message-ID: <BxtI80.3IK@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 16:38:21 GMT
- Article-I.D.: news.BxtI80.3IK
- References: <1992Nov16.135929.27196@watson.ibm.com>
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- >If I were to make such a message to last a billion years, I'd put it it
- >DNA sequences. Chapter 30 "Extraterrestrial Messages in Our Genes"
- >in MAZES FOR THE MIND: COMPUTERS AND THE UNEXPECTED goes into great
- >detail on this subject: exactly how you would code the message, and the
- >care that must be taken so that the message does not mutate over the
- >great strectch of time. In this book chapter, scientists discover that
- >the genetic sequence of a tarsier codes for the digits of pi.
- >(St. Martin's Press, NY, 1992)
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- Why not engineer the genetics of everyone to have the message on the
- foreheads of everyone? Link it to a gene that counteracts a fatal gene.
- This way anyone without the gen would die. And the characteristic would
- continue. Flame me if this is impossible.
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