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- From: cliff@watson.ibm.com (cliff)
- Subject: Billion-Year Survivability
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 13:59:29 GMT
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- If I were to make such a message to last a billion years, I'd put it it
- DNA sequences. Chapter 30 "Extraterrestrial Messages in Our Genes"
- in MAZES FOR THE MIND: COMPUTERS AND THE UNEXPECTED goes into great
- detail on this subject: exactly how you would code the message, and the
- care that must be taken so that the message does not mutate over the
- great strectch of time. In this book chapter, scientists discover that
- the genetic sequence of a tarsier codes for the digits of pi.
- (St. Martin's Press, NY, 1992)
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- Thanks, Cliff
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