<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/19/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">spike</b> <<a href="mailto:spike66@comcast.net">spike66@comcast.net</a>> wrote:</span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
So then cluey ones, how do we get DNA strands in a form that can be launched<br>and separated into individual strands? And if so, will light pressure be<br>sufficient to push them away from the earth and sun? Without breaking them
<br>to pieces? How high would we need to go? Are there any alternatives, such<br>as putting a facility into solar orbit, reading our DNA here, synthesizing a<br>copy of it there, and launching gently from that vantage point?
</blockquote><div><br>Ok, I hereby certify Spike as a "god". Gods are not recognized by their answers but by whether or not they ask the right questions (solutions are easy, questions are hard).<br><br>So, in answer to the questions (I'm doing the easy part)...
<br><br>The individual strands question becomes moot in the light of the functional translation question. Do you have actual information content and does it do something?<br><br>Light pressure is not important. Survival of the information content is.
<br><br>The information content is useless without a reader (this is an interesting perspective from an extropic standpoint). So, spike you not only have to preserve the information but you have to translate it into a form which does something with it --
i.e. you have to define (and drive?) a path forward.<br><br>La de da de da "We have upteen gazillion bits of Anders and Eliezers minds "on ice", we can resurrect them at any point in time, of what use is such a retroperspective given the currennt state of the universe?"
<br><br>Robert<br><br><br>Robert<br><br></div><br></div><br>