Practical yes but you would have the “file” but not any screens to view it on so... wait a second Does that mean you can connect yourself to a computer and watch memes with no internet or data SCIENCE I TELL YOU SCIENCE IS AMAZING
Smh. Keep dreaming, DNA storage doesn't involve our own DNA, they artificially create a brand new sequence from scratch. They don't take out our DNA and modify it, the video simply describes that this new storage method uses the same sequence of code that makes up a regular DNA. We can't store anything within our own one because it's already used for protein synthesis. Lack of context and knowledge generally leads to misunderstanding which is where most arguments sparks from
@@davidnguyen9065 Not a dream, you could raise up a mole on your body that had a LOT of data. Currently, you would need your own lab to take a sample of the mole and then amplify and read the DNA, but in the future maybe the device could be as small as a blood sugar monitor is now. th-cam.com/video/rc5G04nJecI/w-d-xo.html
KidKangaroo I hope so get rid of schools and just turn the buildings into new homes for the homeless so we do not need to be bothered by this stuff anymore, anyone will know how to do any task yes they would need to experience it physically but they will know what they need to do and what the outcome will be. And we will not need to blow out eardrums out with music every song would literally be in your head and in your genes. Everyone will know how to farm, we wouldn't need to take so long to answer questions and we can focus on our body and improve it because we could use it were so lazy now.
ScienceAIR we also need to work on mussel memory. There's a kid that is like a real life naturally born captain America and he is strong enough to give grown men a run for there money in strength. If we can copy that and make some kind of shot that changes the body structure to mimic that we can progress so much and for world hungrier there's a man that didn't need food for years thanks to his body being able to survive on his bone marrow alone it would feed on it in small amounts making it not affect him and making him able to function without food water is a need but yea
What I thought I would get: -The probability to see and maneuver in our past lives -"All of this was not a coincidence/Don't look back..." What I got: A scientifically beneficial video that makes me reminisce about what I'm doing with my life. Side note: Good job on the great video👏👏
Admittedly, fast reading and writing speed and the reusablility are our primary concerns on storage systems. DNA storage maybe the ultimate data storage technique in terms of information density, longevity, and we may even can *program* the DNA filesystem with the feature of journals, integrity check, and backups like our computer filesystem. In fact, DNA has been a mean to store information since its existence, which means, what we only need is the way to operate them.
I recently had to do a term paper on the efficacy of long term storage techniques for isolated DNA, and came across this subject in doing it. Far and away one of the most interesting and intriguing areas of science right now it's literally so fricken cool!!!!!
What if there is already a code incoded in our own DNA and we dont know it because we never thought of decoding it into binary. Or what if the way to decode it is not even binary and some other form of interpreting information?
2:36 for those who didn't get see the previous symbol in AGCT code to look into table column for ternary rows, for first one look into first column i.e. A . the 2 is first char, so maps to T by looking at the table's first column crnt code => T Now next 1, the row of 1 in the table have 4 cells, what to choose ? Look at the latest char in the above crnt code which is T, so choose from row 1, col T. You will get C crnt code => TC similarly now for 2 from the ternary msg, select cell of row 2 & col C crnt code => TCA for trnary 0, select cell of row 0 & col A crnt code => TCAC (result)
The problem is using the latest technology to store latest information. It somehow redundant. You'll need to have more or less the same technology to recover that technology. It's pointless. You have to use a method that can be read with much less technology than the content of the message.
True. But it could wait until we redevelop the means to decode it. After all, we might not want a Stone Age society to understand how to build a nuke or whatnot. Of course, by the time they develop the tech to read DNA, they may have independently developed most of our tech anyway. So maybe it is more important to preserve our art and history. But that makes me wonder if WE will discover the art and history of a long dead civilization in our DNA.
I have never even thought of this...Ever! This was tried out in the 1900s why haven’t we ever heard of this. That just blows my mind how far humanity has come.
there are 64 combinations for a triplett reading pattern, you could easily make it a quadruplet reading pattern for a total of 256 combinations or implement an additional base (for example something like uracil or uric acid) for 125 combinations in a triplett reading pattern. However the latter is quite complicated if you want to produce in a living organism, not as much if you are using a synthesizer (which is most likely more costly over all). The DNA-code is basically like binary, but with A,T,C,G instead of just 0 and 1..
Schattenmaler yep, if we see it in DNA style (where A-T and G-C couples in any order could be interpreted as 0 and 1) But in RNA string every base could have a single value, so instead of having a binary string, we would have a "quaternary" string. So, for a quad-byte (8 azotate bases) we could have 4^8 (65536) values And adding Uracile we would have 5 possible states of a single base, leaving us space for 390625 (5^8) values in a single "byte" Of course, if we think in a pure theorical matter (it couldn't be easily put inside a bacteria of any sort)
Not really sure if i get what you are saying. Do you want to diverge from the usual A-T and G-C pattern (Watson-Crick base pairing) and match every base which every other base? Like A with G or A with A? Because that will destroy the normal helical structure of the DNA (and with it the ability for dense packing and most likely structural stability). However there are multiple types of helices (e.g. the z-DNA helix) that have quite different appearances. For example in the z-Helix The connection between backbone-sugar and base are different to that of a "normal" DNA-Helix. So you could use short intervalls of z-DNA within a normal DNA-Helix to communicate additional information, but it would be complicated to pair any base with any other without huge drawback. However, I wouldn't use RNA as a storage medium, it's so much less stable than DNA. Rather try to couple Uracil with a desoxyribose and pair it with adenine. But this has the downside that T can decay into U over time in a certain chemical environment, in which case we will lose information. Also if U is implemented into DNA it will be replaced by T by the DNA-Repair machinery in vivo... so you basically have to shoot your own foot and deactivate certain DNA-repair mechanisms or do everything artificially... Sidenote: It is possible to pair Nucleotides in tripple strands (you can use peptides that mimic nucleotides for that as well) or use alternative base-pairing like Hoogsteen-base- (probably mispelled his name) pairing. The latter might be interesting (not necessarily for storing information) because it creates very stable DNA (see Telomers).
Schattenmaler I haven't thought of that (about the unstable DNA) 😅 It was just a random theory (like my computer scientist mind formulated it) But no, I wasn't thinking about changing the bases' pairs, but about the fact that A-T or C-G are like 0s and 1s in binary
It's such an interesting topic to think about, but in practice i honestly can not imagine it currently. Its a long road to go and ultimatively there are probably better ways to store large amounts of information..
Plot twist : What if all our DNA is actually some data of our creators which our creators made up and we are there to just multiply them and preserve. We might act as that tree they showed in the video 😱
I thought about it as well, and it could be possible as most of our DNA is "gibberish", useless stuff that has been added by viruses over millions of years that doesn't actually do nor good nor bad to us, there may be encoded messages in there if we follow that line of thought.
KTManiac Tv It's not paradoxical at all. There must be a Creator who always is, one who wasn't created. It can be confusing, but so are many aspects of God.
KTManiac Tv It's really simple, we have a creator that doesnt have a creator ,otherwise its going to be a infinte number of creators which is impossible . How do I know? As a Muslim(I'm not saying I'm right and you are wrong, but this is what we beleive in) it says that in the Quran . And why do I believe in the Quran? Is because it has many PROVEN facts so if most of it is true then the rest is true aswell because 1400 years ago the facts were not proven to be right because people didnt have as much knowledge as today and the proven facts are only going to increase . But thats my opinion and you have your own way of thinking I just thought I would share my opinion
DNA is increasingly being seen as the future of data storage due to its incredible density, stability, and longevity. A single gram of DNA can theoretically hold up to 215 petabytes of data, making it a highly efficient medium compared to traditional storage devices. Additionally, DNA can last for thousands of years if stored properly, far surpassing the lifespan of current storage technologies. As the volume of digital data grows exponentially, DNA storage offers a promising solution for archiving vast amounts of information securely and sustainably. Will DNA storage become the primary method for preserving data in the digital age?
While good for data archival purposes, this is not useful in daily use, where we require fast write and read speeds, not to mention we need erasable memories, which DNA is not(practically)
Aditya Patil You don't know how they process to decode it so you know nothing of its speed, and DNA can carry so much informations on only one of your fingers that you won't even think of the idea of erasing something, even of you want to erase something unwanted , you will be able to do it by breaking the codons. So not a problem.
The video is not about flash drives or hard disks or data storage we use daily being replaced by DNA storage, it's basically and mainly intended for long term data storage for humankind's knowledge preservation.
Aditya Patil I agree, currently the only practical application I can see is DNA-based archives, with some index stored in a traditional, easily readable format (Which will eventually degrade, so that will be an issue). With modern technology, reading a string of DNA is both an expensive and time consuming process, not to mention it usually destroys the DNA as well, meaning it would have to be resynthesized, which is an expensive and complex process today. Maybe we will have more developed techniques in the future, but we don't know.
The first thing I would try to write in the DNA of all organisms as starting codons (if possible because all DNA doesn't replicate accurately for 100 or 1000 of years) is "KEY= ENGLISH" in pictorial format and then add other information of maths,science, languages or whatever the topic is ,then in other organisms' DNA, which are found very often I would write grammar and rules of English language!!
A,G,T,C are what can be chosen to form a codon. Since a codon is formed by choosing thrice from the four possibilities with repetition, we have 4×4×4 = 64 possible codons.
DNA might be ideal for long term storage and archiving, but I doubt it would work for day to day business use, unless DNA sequencers become as fast, reliable and most important, cheap as hard drives.
This is so cool ! I have a question though. If such a disaster occurs, how will we preserve the knowledge of how to decrypt this kind of information, or the knowledge that we have this information and it needs to be deciphered?
So many questions about this. First off, would technology always be required to access the stored information, or is it theoretically possible to create an organism that would somehow read/express that information? If so, what form would that take? Also, as each set of three has specific coding purposes for the production of amino acids (which then become proteins), would this risk altering the ratios of certain chemicals in the body? I forget which sequence initializes reading, but could reading be blocked by having the initial and the stop serve as a period and a space, respectively (that way none of the code would actually produce amino acids)? Or would that not work for some reason?
That makes for a fun sci fi story though. Or hypothesis for how life spread to this planet if you're into stuff like that. We are the legacy of an alien race which used DNA to store information, and they sent the sum of their knowledge out into the universe to grow on various planets and be preserved and if we could just somehow figure out how to read their code we might be able to piece all that knowledge together
So i can store memes in my body
Practical yes but you would have the “file” but not any screens to view it on so... wait a second
Does that mean you can connect yourself to a computer and watch memes with no internet or data
SCIENCE I TELL YOU SCIENCE IS AMAZING
This is the real question that's worth asking
Smh. Keep dreaming, DNA storage doesn't involve our own DNA, they artificially create a brand new sequence from scratch. They don't take out our DNA and modify it, the video simply describes that this new storage method uses the same sequence of code that makes up a regular DNA. We can't store anything within our own one because it's already used for protein synthesis.
Lack of context and knowledge generally leads to misunderstanding which is where most arguments sparks from
@@davidnguyen9065 Not a dream, you could raise up a mole on your body that had a LOT of data. Currently, you would need your own lab to take a sample of the mole and then amplify and read the DNA, but in the future maybe the device could be as small as a blood sugar monitor is now. th-cam.com/video/rc5G04nJecI/w-d-xo.html
Lol
Conan the Bacterium, this is why I love the scientific community. They've got a sense of humor.
Darth Guilder sense of tumor
Agree. They, sometimes, may have a boring job, but, they still found a way to make it fun.
mestre12 Actually, being a scientific is very interesting, as scientists usually work with topics they are very interested in
I don't get it
Luka, it's a play on "Conan the Barbarian"
This is one of the most fascinating things I've ever heard. If it becomes more widely used, it could genuinely revolutionize data storage.
Someone make a sci-fi movie on this. *please*
The Science Biome isn't assassins creed based on that
That's not interesting enough to hold an entire movie up. And anyway it's not going to be that long until this will be no longer sci-fi.
KidKangaroo I hope so get rid of schools and just turn the buildings into new homes for the homeless so we do not need to be bothered by this stuff anymore, anyone will know how to do any task yes they would need to experience it physically but they will know what they need to do and what the outcome will be. And we will not need to blow out eardrums out with music every song would literally be in your head and in your genes. Everyone will know how to farm, we wouldn't need to take so long to answer questions and we can focus on our body and improve it because we could use it were so lazy now.
ScienceAIR we also need to work on mussel memory. There's a kid that is like a real life naturally born captain America and he is strong enough to give grown men a run for there money in strength. If we can copy that and make some kind of shot that changes the body structure to mimic that we can progress so much and for world hungrier there's a man that didn't need food for years thanks to his body being able to survive on his bone marrow alone it would feed on it in small amounts making it not affect him and making him able to function without food water is a need but yea
Hollywood movie maker here
What I thought I would get:
-The probability to see and maneuver in our past lives
-"All of this was not a coincidence/Don't look back..."
What I got:
A scientifically beneficial video that makes me reminisce about what I'm doing with my life.
Side note: Good job on the great video👏👏
Admittedly, fast reading and writing speed and the reusablility are our primary concerns on storage systems. DNA storage maybe the ultimate data storage technique in terms of information density, longevity, and we may even can *program* the DNA filesystem with the feature of journals, integrity check, and backups like our computer filesystem. In fact, DNA has been a mean to store information since its existence, which means, what we only need is the way to operate them.
Still serves as apocalyptic backup😊
This is amazing. Our DNA hold so much memory and yet I can't even remember where I put my keys.
We don’t remember with our mind but with our emotions try it
Oh Ted-Ed, I really like the music in the end of each animation
Hope we reach this quickly.
Who here thinks that TED ED is better than Discovery and Animal Planet combined?
"They encrypted the entire declaration of human rights"
*"AND A HIGH DEF OK GO MUSIC VIDEO"*
We just need Senku, he'll speed run humanity from stone age to the modern world.
Beautiful animation, a nice and clear explanation well done!
I recently had to do a term paper on the efficacy of long term storage techniques for isolated DNA, and came across this subject in doing it. Far and away one of the most interesting and intriguing areas of science right now it's literally so fricken cool!!!!!
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What if there is already a code incoded in our own DNA and we dont know it because we never thought of decoding it into binary. Or what if the way to decode it is not even binary and some other form of interpreting information?
Fascinating. 😊
There is a code encoded in our DNA, and weve decoded it. How do you think we made the code chart?
We are the data from other species...
Our purpose is just to store the data ..
Nature is a lot more complicated than binary
Maybe that is where inspiration or Idea come from, not from outside but its already in our brain.
We just accidently open it.
This is literally too much for my brain to handle.
2:36 for those who didn't get
see the previous symbol in AGCT code to look into table column for ternary rows, for first one look into first column i.e. A
.
the 2 is first char, so maps to T by looking at the table's first column
crnt code => T
Now next 1, the row of 1 in the table have 4 cells, what to choose ?
Look at the latest char in the above crnt code which is T, so choose from row 1, col T. You will get C
crnt code => TC
similarly now for 2 from the ternary msg, select cell of row 2 & col C
crnt code => TCA
for trnary 0, select cell of row 0 & col A
crnt code => TCAC (result)
THIS CHANNEL IS AWESOME!!!!!!!!
Mr. Midnight where's Doug Walker hiding?
But information in dna isn't going the help us if we are sent back to the stone age.
True, we won't even have the devices to decode the info 🙃
That’s what I thought 😂
The problem is using the latest technology to store latest information. It somehow redundant. You'll need to have more or less the same technology to recover that technology. It's pointless. You have to use a method that can be read with much less technology than the content of the message.
True. But it could wait until we redevelop the means to decode it. After all, we might not want a Stone Age society to understand how to build a nuke or whatnot. Of course, by the time they develop the tech to read DNA, they may have independently developed most of our tech anyway. So maybe it is more important to preserve our art and history. But that makes me wonder if WE will discover the art and history of a long dead civilization in our DNA.
If they have the technology to decode it they will probably speak another languages and can't decode it
When I will be a scientist, the first thing to do is to write in DNA-codeing
"MITOCHONDRIA IS THE POWERHOUSE OF THE CELL"
I'm surprised that there's no Assassin's Creed comment.
Theres already yours... So you shouldnt commented for "NOT-A-SINGLE-COMMENT".
I don't know.. the information is personal memory though. How can memories become DNA?
Kyle Dolor in Assassin's creed we access our ancestors memories ( data) through our blood and dna
Sam Gelua Just wait.
I just love how I have touched *every single living being* with my DNA :).
The Science Biome your delicious
The Science Biome you have touched every married person, too, not just the singles. Think about it!
@SArpnt quantum physics is weird though.
I have never even thought of this...Ever! This was tried out in the 1900s why haven’t we ever heard of this. That just blows my mind how far humanity has come.
One of best teded
If there are 64 possible combination, then data could be encoded in Base64, like it is already done for e-mail attachments
there are 64 combinations for a triplett reading pattern, you could easily make it a quadruplet reading pattern for a total of 256 combinations or implement an additional base (for example something like uracil or uric acid) for 125 combinations in a triplett reading pattern. However the latter is quite complicated if you want to produce in a living organism, not as much if you are using a synthesizer (which is most likely more costly over all). The DNA-code is basically like binary, but with A,T,C,G instead of just 0 and 1..
Schattenmaler yep, if we see it in DNA style (where A-T and G-C couples in any order could be interpreted as 0 and 1)
But in RNA string every base could have a single value, so instead of having a binary string, we would have a "quaternary" string.
So, for a quad-byte (8 azotate bases) we could have 4^8 (65536) values
And adding Uracile we would have 5 possible states of a single base, leaving us space for 390625 (5^8) values in a single "byte"
Of course, if we think in a pure theorical matter (it couldn't be easily put inside a bacteria of any sort)
Not really sure if i get what you are saying. Do you want to diverge from the usual A-T and G-C pattern (Watson-Crick base pairing) and match every base which every other base? Like A with G or A with A? Because that will destroy the normal helical structure of the DNA (and with it the ability for dense packing and most likely structural stability). However there are multiple types of helices (e.g. the z-DNA helix) that have quite different appearances. For example in the z-Helix The connection between backbone-sugar and base are different to that of a "normal" DNA-Helix. So you could use short intervalls of z-DNA within a normal DNA-Helix to communicate additional information, but it would be complicated to pair any base with any other without huge drawback.
However, I wouldn't use RNA as a storage medium, it's so much less stable than DNA. Rather try to couple Uracil with a desoxyribose and pair it with adenine. But this has the downside that T can decay into U over time in a certain chemical environment, in which case we will lose information. Also if U is implemented into DNA it will be replaced by T by the DNA-Repair machinery in vivo... so you basically have to shoot your own foot and deactivate certain DNA-repair mechanisms or do everything artificially...
Sidenote: It is possible to pair Nucleotides in tripple strands (you can use peptides that mimic nucleotides for that as well) or use alternative base-pairing like Hoogsteen-base- (probably mispelled his name) pairing. The latter might be interesting (not necessarily for storing information) because it creates very stable DNA (see Telomers).
Schattenmaler I haven't thought of that (about the unstable DNA) 😅 It was just a random theory (like my computer scientist mind formulated it)
But no, I wasn't thinking about changing the bases' pairs, but about the fact that A-T or C-G are like 0s and 1s in binary
It's such an interesting topic to think about, but in practice i honestly can not imagine it currently. Its a long road to go and ultimatively there are probably better ways to store large amounts of information..
This just crazy
Awesome!!!
Pretty cool!!
Plot twist : What if all our DNA is actually some data of our creators which our creators made up and we are there to just multiply them and preserve. We might act as that tree they showed in the video 😱
I thought about it as well, and it could be possible as most of our DNA is "gibberish", useless stuff that has been added by viruses over millions of years that doesn't actually do nor good nor bad to us, there may be encoded messages in there if we follow that line of thought.
What if it's a time circle and we created our creators
KTManiac Tv not necessarily, the same way we could've evolved from nothing our creators could have too. They don't need to have a creator
KTManiac Tv It's not paradoxical at all. There must be a Creator who always is, one who wasn't created. It can be confusing, but so are many aspects of God.
KTManiac Tv
It's really simple, we have a creator that doesnt have a creator ,otherwise its going to be a infinte number of creators which is impossible .
How do I know? As a Muslim(I'm not saying I'm right and you are wrong, but this is what we beleive in) it says that in the Quran . And why do I believe in the Quran? Is because it has many PROVEN facts so if most of it is true then the rest is true aswell because 1400 years ago the facts were not proven to be right because people didnt have as much knowledge as today and the proven facts are only going to increase .
But thats my opinion and you have your own way of thinking I just thought I would share my opinion
Incredible !!!!
Conan, the bacteria 's best friend is Andy, the fungus.
Sidd Joshi heh
I will come back to this when this successfully worked
MIND-BLOWN
Ted ed you are great,changed my life
Superb work
great video !
Thank you for putting a Rosalind Franklin quote in there.
I feel like she deserves a shout-out in a DNA related video.
I bet my DNA is a secret message that when translated shows a bunch of dank memes.
This video is amazing and I want a full video on conan the bacterium because that sounds like it deserves at least 5 minuets
What an amazing video. This and the Virginia Woolf video have been my favorites by far. Keep them coming!
Stunning.
DNA is increasingly being seen as the future of data storage due to its incredible density, stability, and longevity. A single gram of DNA can theoretically hold up to 215 petabytes of data, making it a highly efficient medium compared to traditional storage devices. Additionally, DNA can last for thousands of years if stored properly, far surpassing the lifespan of current storage technologies. As the volume of digital data grows exponentially, DNA storage offers a promising solution for archiving vast amounts of information securely and sustainably. Will DNA storage become the primary method for preserving data in the digital age?
While good for data archival purposes, this is not useful in daily use, where we require fast write and read speeds, not to mention we need erasable memories, which DNA is not(practically)
Aditya Patil You don't know how they process to decode it so you know nothing of its speed, and DNA can carry so much informations on only one of your fingers that you won't even think of the idea of erasing something, even of you want to erase something unwanted , you will be able to do it by breaking the codons. So not a problem.
The video is not about flash drives or hard disks or data storage we use daily being replaced by DNA storage, it's basically and mainly intended for long term data storage for humankind's knowledge preservation.
Aditya Patil how about you erase the information by literatly loosing it.
These people that answered don't know anything about DNA or how a hard driver works. They don't even understood the video
Aditya Patil I agree, currently the only practical application I can see is DNA-based archives, with some index stored in a traditional, easily readable format (Which will eventually degrade, so that will be an issue). With modern technology, reading a string of DNA is both an expensive and time consuming process, not to mention it usually destroys the DNA as well, meaning it would have to be resynthesized, which is an expensive and complex process today. Maybe we will have more developed techniques in the future, but we don't know.
MINDBLOWN
Amazing
اجمل تقرير شفته والاهم مترجم ، اشكركم جدا وربي يوفقكم
Wow wow wow just wow. Advanced science. This gonna make huge difference on science & technology.
Dunno why, but this made me smile 😃
This is so fascinating
Mindblowing!!
Love your videos ted-ed 👌
Well done!
I came here for the Assassin's Creed reference
It is not the same theory, but it is connected to it by the idea of information storage inside DNA
Someone summarize this for me thank you
The first thing I would try to write in the DNA of all organisms as starting codons (if possible because all DNA doesn't replicate accurately for 100 or 1000 of years) is "KEY= ENGLISH" in pictorial format and then add other information of maths,science, languages or whatever the topic is ,then in other organisms' DNA, which are found very often I would write grammar and rules of English language!!
awesome... that blew my mind
Awsome concept
Wowza.
Sadly I couldn't focus through the video but it seemed nioce
Mind blown!!
This is amazing
It was fascinating
My jaw dropped.. it was awesome! thank you for sharing!!
This is really exciting!
I need more informatiom about dna digital data storage coz its a peer teaching topic for me ❣️i like u r way of explaining
But i think you could store more data in the quntam data storage system
Amazing video!
This is so cool omg!
Cute aliens at the end. Lovely video as a whole, too. Great job, Ted-Ed.
our bodies are amazing
I think it's pretty good idea to be thinked
Nice one
Storing is one thing but decoding is another though
Very informative!
OMG !!!!! This is too much for my brain ...
How interesting!
What a coincidence that on the same day Ted-talk also released a similar talk about storing data using DNA by speaker Dina!
A,G,T,C are what can be chosen to form a codon. Since a codon is formed by choosing thrice from the four possibilities with repetition, we have 4×4×4 = 64 possible codons.
awesome biotech
the most blowing mind thing I've ever heard about.
Woah! That would be beautiful.
How fast would read/write perform though. Exciting
Amazing 😍😍
DNA might be ideal for long term storage and archiving, but I doubt it would work for day to day business use, unless DNA sequencers become as fast, reliable and most important, cheap as hard drives.
This is so cool !
I have a question though. If such a disaster occurs, how will we preserve the knowledge of how to decrypt this kind of information, or the knowledge that we have this information and it needs to be deciphered?
... aren't we already sentient bags of DNA that have learned to decode themselves?
It's been a while since a new (relatively) technology mind-blows me. Well done.
Imagine...a literal family tree...i would love to study this in detail.
They'll have to have the key to decipher it, or it worth nothing.
MY MIND IS FRICKING BLOWN!
Cool video
Graham Hancock talks about this in his book Supernatural, it's a great read.
So many questions about this. First off, would technology always be required to access the stored information, or is it theoretically possible to create an organism that would somehow read/express that information? If so, what form would that take? Also, as each set of three has specific coding purposes for the production of amino acids (which then become proteins), would this risk altering the ratios of certain chemicals in the body? I forget which sequence initializes reading, but could reading be blocked by having the initial and the stop serve as a period and a space, respectively (that way none of the code would actually produce amino acids)? Or would that not work for some reason?
Great animations and I wished I could be a baceteria
Wow internet is gonna be DNA
4:40 oh my god a real family tree
We remember for ever. And it’s in our DNA
A message I would convert into DNA format would be the lyrics to the song "The Ting Goes" and inject it in a duck.
I don't mind these headspace ads
Neat. Imagine a walking photo gallery.
Also
[begins whistling DNA]
This explains a way that we could understand how data is stored in the trees of Pandora in the movie Avatar...
Is wifi the future food and water?
It better be.
Elite dark lord_dragonslayer_3.14159 lol
I mean, now we can charge cellphones with wifi so yeah, probably
Are food and water the future wifi?
Elite dark lord_dragonslayer_3.14159 I hope so
That makes for a fun sci fi story though. Or hypothesis for how life spread to this planet if you're into stuff like that. We are the legacy of an alien race which used DNA to store information, and they sent the sum of their knowledge out into the universe to grow on various planets and be preserved and if we could just somehow figure out how to read their code we might be able to piece all that knowledge together