what is to prevent them from actually inserting that DNA back into a cell?
I am not a biologist, but I imagine that the standard cancer-destruction mechanisms would kill that cell.
What appeals to me as a cryptogeek is the notion of finding or creating two separate genomes, which when recombined (or mapped and XOR'ed) revealed a message.
You could do quite a good short story on this, depending upon the means of recombination. Human beings probably would not make very good one-time-pads, but I'm sure that something could be thrashed out.
"like an infinite number of monkeys, there exist two creatures whose DNA, then XORed together (after using the appropriate decoding scheme to generate a bitstring)" will generate {the complete works of shakespeare, the meaning of life, the text of (insert your favourite holy book), god's last message to his creation}..."
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Hey Frank - don't sweat it; most Americans neither speak nor write "Oxford" English, either. 8-)
It's an excellent rebuttal, and I note with interest that the website has put up a comment box pointing at slashdot, as well as a footnote:
Hey, don't yell at us! Yell at Jack Bryar. Reach him at Vermontel.com or harass him at work.
- alec (in the UK, lately resident of Oxford).
I am not a biologist, but I imagine that the standard cancer-destruction mechanisms would kill that cell.
What appeals to me as a cryptogeek is the notion of finding or creating two separate genomes, which when recombined (or mapped and XOR'ed) revealed a message.
You could do quite a good short story on this, depending upon the means of recombination. Human beings probably would not make very good one-time-pads, but I'm sure that something could be thrashed out.
"like an infinite number of monkeys, there exist two creatures whose DNA, then XORed together (after using the appropriate decoding scheme to generate a bitstring)" will generate {the complete works of shakespeare, the meaning of life, the text of (insert your favourite holy book), god's last message to his creation}..."
lotta potential there.
- alec
get the book "skunk works" by the ex-chief of lockheed development. it details all this. he's perfectly correct. good book.
It certainly is a very fat book, yes. 8-)
I still prefer the original Bourne book, or Nemeth's tome on Unix System Admin.
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