[extropy-chat] advanced science fights crime

[Damien Broderick]

I read:

http://www.canada.com/news/national/story.html?id=3f8f2b8f-87c9-433a-8df8-d81bcad148fc

< Authorities had never before asked for a DNA sample, the source said. A 
cotton swab was used to collect the sample from [Michael] Jackson's mouth.

< It wasn't immediately clear how authorities planned to use the DNA in 
Jackson's child molestation case.

< Also while at Jackson's ranch, sheriff's investigators measured rooms, 
trying to establish the sight lines from one room to another, the source 
said. >

I assumed at first that this DNA sample would establish whether any of the 
young boys allegedly molested by Jackson had been made pregnant by him. But 
the carefully measured sight lines suggest another scientific line of 
thought--that Jackson's DNA might have *leaped* from one room to the other, 
perhaps while everyone slept. After all, science has shown that genes are 
driven by the desire to spread themselves widely, although not through 
walls... unless the dancing entertainer's semen contains *mystical 
teleporting genes*!! Or maybe leading scientists are looking into the 
possibility that Jackson's mutant genes for ever paler skin, like Lex 
Luthor's baldness, made him the evil genius he is today.

Any forensic experts here who can cast light on this amazing investigation?

Damien Broderick