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All the Data on Earth Can Fit in a Cup Full of DNA. This Is MIT’s Jurassic Park-Inspired Project

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Just be careful you don’t store the cup on earth, else it would have to contain itself.
- Plus, a cat's probably going to knock it off the table.
  .......wait, is that what earthquakes are???
  
  Technically speaking, can’t any impact with the ground be considered an earthquake?
- Set of all sets
- That's fine as long as it can self reference.
- I'm less worried about it containing itself, and more worried about what the two girls holding the cup want to do with it.
Damn it's gonna take me a while to make a whole cup but I'll get started
- I can lend a helping hand. 😘
And has data integrity for a few hours, if no mechanism to constantly repair them (almost correctly) exist.
- This was my thought. DNA isn’t stable so it’s a lousy storage medium. Degrades over time, mutations in living organisms, etc.
- How would the thing in your spoiler repair DNA?
  
  My, i'm getting old. I meant RNA polymerase.
  Btw, i came across this article while searching for the right term.
This Is MIT’s Jurassic Park-Inspired Project
They did get to the end of that story, right?
- The scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, that they never stopped to ask if they should finish watching the movie
This would work well with the dna fountain encoding method
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2016/12/04/074237.full.pdf

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