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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 (www.xatakaon.com)
submitted 5 months ago by boem to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 56 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Just be careful you don’t store the cup on earth, else it would have to contain itself.

[–] Lost_My_Mind 28 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Plus, a cat's probably going to knock it off the table.

.......wait, is that what earthquakes are???

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

Set of all sets

[–] InnerScientist 5 points 5 months ago

That's fine as long as it can self reference.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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

[–] xantoxis 23 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I can lend a helping hand. 😘

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] RememberTheApollo_ 8 points 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

How would the thing in your spoiler repair DNA?

[–] CoggyMcFee 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Tap for spoiler🤷

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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

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

[–] rob_t_firefly 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This Is MIT’s Jurassic Park-Inspired Project

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

This would work well with the dna fountain encoding method

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