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Interesting read from a historical perspective, but the idea of a message hidden in DNA is far fetched to me - DNA is subject to the effects of evolution and mu
by daveslash 12y ago
Interesting read from a historical perspective, but the idea of a message hidden in DNA is far fetched to me - DNA is subject to the effects of evolution and mutation which seem to me would make any message unrecognizable after a billion years.
- dekhn 12y agoPresumably, a sufficiently evil entity could Reed-Solomon or otherwise erasure-code a message that could survive a long time. But yeah, the analyses listed in the article are laughably naive.