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Encode wikipedia into DNA, then insert it into a horseshoe crab. In a few million years it may still be around to be decoded. >The fossil record of Xiphosura g
by pcrh 3y ago
Encode wikipedia into DNA, then insert it into a horseshoe crab. In a few million years it may still be around to be decoded.
>The fossil record of Xiphosura goes back over 440 million years to the Ordovician period, with the oldest representatives of the modern family Limulidae dating to approximately 250 million years ago during the Early Triassic. As such, the extant forms have been described as "living fossils".[9]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_crab https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_crab
- inciampati 3y agoAnd yet, in those 250 million years, it's very likely that the genome was completely rewritten. The phenotype of the organism is more stable than its genome. Not a shred of Wikipedia would be left after such a time scale.
- pcrh 3y agoThere's a lot of redundancy and "archaic" DNA in most multicellular organisms. I imagine that over 50% of wikipedia would still be present after a million years. The inserted wiki-DNA could also conceivably be constructed so as to ensure its own perpetuation.