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So instead of the BS about DNA preserved in ambar (it doesn't actually work), Jurassic Park should have dinosaur DNA recovered from frozen samples collected fro
by Qem 2y ago
So instead of the BS about DNA preserved in ambar (it doesn't actually work), Jurassic Park should have dinosaur DNA recovered from frozen samples collected from a shaded moon crater?
- realPubkey 2y agoHalf-life of DNS bondings is about 10k years.
- Qem 2y agoEven at cryogenic temperatures? Some lunar pole craters have regions of permanent shadow, with temperatures close to -200C.
- theGnuMe 2y agoYou just saved the franchise.
- southernplaces7 2y agothe BS about DNA preserved in ambar was just storytime BS, Michael Crichton himself repeatedly told people the same thing: that he'd made it up as plausible sounding technobabble. But it was BS because of a hard limit to the longevity of DNA in any fossilized context. Material blasted from the earth maybe including a few animal parts isn't nearly so rigidly improbable, or impossible. We know that massive amounts of ejecta went far into space, and a lot almost certainly slammed into the moon.