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I, for one, have been busily working in my backyard launching nano-rockets filled with water bears that I've manipulated via CRISPR to contain encoded messages
by blazespin 8y ago
I, for one, have been busily working in my backyard launching nano-rockets filled with water bears that I've manipulated via CRISPR to contain encoded messages of funny dad jokes.
- bencollier49 8y agoBut then, disaster strikes! It transpires that when encoded into quaternary, and thence to base pairs, the joke "What lies at the bottom of the sea, shivering? A nervous wreck!" encodes a viral sequence for a novel but entirely deadly pneumatic disease. When one of the rockets misfires and detonates in a Bernard Matthews turkey farm, all human life on this planet is quickly extinguished. 100 million years later, a crashed alien spacecraft is discovered by the inhabitants of Gliese 15s, triggering a cultural revolution involving terrible puns and mildly amusing logical inconsistencies.
- Tossrock 8y agoAaron Diaz may have beaten you to that particular punch: http://dresdencodak.com/2009/07/12/fabulous-prizes/ http://dresdencodak.com/2009/07/12/fabulous-prizes/