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jungleroomx
It's never too many graves, it's always not enough shovelsRegistered User regular
It's never too many graves, it's always not enough shovelsRegistered User regular
DNA storage might be the be-all end all storage medium of the world ever.
https://qz.com/345640/scientists-say-all-the-worlds-data-can-fit-on-a-dna-hard-drive-the-size-of-a-teaspoon/
1 billion gigabytes of data in a gram of synthetic DNA that can last thousands of years.
Only problem is reading it, because DNA is fucking tiny and lasers that small are expensive as hell.
Also, random access.
Anyway, there you go [chat], your trivia for the day.
https://qz.com/345640/scientists-say-all-the-worlds-data-can-fit-on-a-dna-hard-drive-the-size-of-a-teaspoon/
1 billion gigabytes of data in a gram of synthetic DNA that can last thousands of years.
Only problem is reading it, because DNA is fucking tiny and lasers that small are expensive as hell.
Also, random access.
Anyway, there you go [chat], your trivia for the day.
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Can't live without it.
Unlike the sluggards who take 9.5 minutes to fluff together an OP
40 bucks... highly
Does Facebook take a cut of those charity things?
@Mojo_Jojo are there any books or online courses or whatever in synthetic biology that you'd recommend?
I double checked--they do actually have a fund (the Alaska Permanent Fund) of which only part gets paid out. They aren't actually giving away all of their oil revenues each year. But I still really like it because it doesn't really have any direct impact on me either way but lets me say "See? Alaska does it!" wrt UBI.
A few different states have those funds, totalling about $150b, so not huge overall. Alaska's is at about $55b. Texas is the next biggest, they have two funds set up to fund their public schools and their university system.
I dunno
Well I mean, spend 9 minutes putting together an OP nobody gives a shit about 3 pages in or spent 30 seconds putting together an OP nobody gives a shit about 1 page in.
Either way
duh DUH DUUUUHHHHHHHHH
*averts eyes guiltily*
Chisel and rock?
Yes, most of the sciencey stuff in that game is pretty realistic.
Ya dude it's an actual thing that people have been working on for a while.
Microsoft set the record at 200 megabytes recently.
I expect an inscribed clay tablet to be more likely to be around in a few thousand years than this post.
10th November, 2064
Scientists claim that they have finally managed to decipher a message secretly hidden inside our DNA.
Using breakthrough technology, researchers working at universities across the globe have slowly unravelled what they consider to be an audio message from an unknown source. The message is present, hidden, in the DNA of every member of the human species; the lead researcher on the project declined to comment on what broader implications they consider this to have.
The researchers have made the audio publically available and invite comment on it.
Ambushed by a mariachi band on the subway
I FUCKING KNEW IT
NuWW is working hard. They just delievered this:
Is a circle jerk required for RAID now?
Impressive. 10/10. Would be rick rolled again.
Can you imagine having to expand server storage?
"hurry up Johnson, we need another 18 terabytes of storage"