General / Off-Topic Data storage just got messy

[deMangler]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/...ed-accurately-on-DNA-in-new-breakthrough.html

I want my premium edition of ED to come *in* a mug, not with one...

 

[Cmdr Andy B]

By translating computerized files into DNA similar to that found in plants and animals, the researchers claim it is possible to store a billion books' worth of data for thousands of years in just a small test tube.

this scares me to death, what if my hard drive gets a virus? could it jump the gap and infect me?

 

[deMangler]

this scares me to death, what if my hard drive gets a virus? could it jump the gap and infect me?

I already spontaneously sing the blue danube in my head every time I approach automatic doors. How much worse can it get?

 

[Sir.Tj]

I already spontaneously sing the blue danube in my head every time I approach automatic doors. How much worse can it get?

Damn that made me laugh

Bit like something I heard yesterday on the radio; When driving in the snow this guy pretends he's in the Millenium Falcon going into hyperdrive

So that's two more things the kids will put in the Dads gone mad again column...

But it is a bit scary to thing what we as a race are capable of