From: UncleScorp
Kdenk niet dat het direct iets met Sloot te maken heeft, maar kvond zo niet direct een ander topic om het in te posten
Message In A DNA Bottle
Put your data on a hard drive, and it may be safe for a decade--assuming the drive doesn't break. But what if you want to keep information safe for hundreds of millions of years?
You might try DNA.
The power of DNA as a storage device was first recognized only six years after the molecule was discovered. In a prescient 1959 lecture at the California Institute of Technology, Richard Feynman, one of the most admired physicists of the 20th century, forecast that miniaturized technology would likely change the world--essentially predicting the digital revolution. Then he pointed out that nature had already done the microchip one better in the form of deoxyribonucleic acid.
In a small bundle of atoms at the center of every cell, Feynman noted, all the information needed to create a human, an amoeba or a tomato was encoded. As in so much else, Feynman was ahead of his time. Scientists have calculated that DNA may be the ideal storage medium. A mere pound of DNA could hold all the data that has ever been saved on any computer.
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