DNA Hard Drive

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Ӈཪ༱عɗ☠ᏩᎧེ͜Ꭷེℵ Aug 18, 2015

I came across an article about a group of scientists who were trying to figure out whether the double-helix molecules that encode every plant,animal, and microbe on Earth can be used to preserve our data for thousands of years. The research team managed to encode DNA with 83kb of text from the Swiss Federal Charter from 1291 and the Method of Archimedes from the 10th century.

Today, a hard drive the size of a small book might back up roughly 5 terabytes of data, and the drives components may last about 50 years. Meanwhile, a microscopic droplet of DNA could store more than 300,000 terabytes of information and can survive for hundreds to thousands of years.
Ӈཪ༱عɗ☠ᏩᎧེ͜Ꭷེℵ Aug 18, 2015

The research team packed DNA into tiny, heat-resistant silica spheres. After baking them at 160 degrees for a week- the equivalent of keeping them at 50 degrees for 2,000 years - the DNA inside was still error free. If kept in cold storage, one of these capsules might end up lasting tens of thousands, perhaps even millions of years.

This is amazing stuff.
〓K Я A M P U S〓 Aug 18, 2015

Fascinating!
ᏚᴡᴀᴍᴘᎠᴏɴᴋᴇʏ Aug 18, 2015

So... I can store porn in my DNA? Sign me up!
Ӈཪ༱عɗ☠ᏩᎧེ͜Ꭷེℵ Aug 18, 2015

★ ᏕᎠ ★ wrote:
So... I can store porn in my DNA? Sign me up!

Yeah, loads more than Ron👨Jeremy can make!
༦ᵑɴͦᴇͫxͣxͩ༤ Aug 18, 2015

http://youtu.be/jzPj3xjM0Vo
Mr,Shush Aug 18, 2015

There be shooting them into space before you no it.
☠ðůﾅ⌖ʟḁẘ☠ Aug 18, 2015

And I was excited about a hybrid SSD
〓 CANDO 〓 Aug 19, 2015

Interesting.
BROKEN🔔BELLS Aug 21, 2015

〓K Я A M P U S〓 wrote:
Fascinating!
💫✨🌟GVYG(A)🌟✨💫 Aug 21, 2015

BROKEN🔔BELLS wrote:
〓K Я A M P U S〓 wrote:
Fascinating!

💉🔬=💾💻
Samuly1 Aug 22, 2015

Somebody doesn't watch Game Theory. MatPat did a video that included this a year or two ago
༦ᵑɴͦᴇͫxͣxͩ༤ Aug 22, 2015

Samuly1 wrote:
Somebody doesn't watch Game Theory. MatPat did a video that included this a year or two ago

That's the link I posted above.
Ӈཪ༱عɗ☠ᏩᎧེ͜Ꭷེℵ Aug 23, 2015

Samuly1 wrote:
Somebody doesn't watch Game Theory. MatPat did a video that included this a year or two ago

If you were enlightened 2 years ago you should have made a thread about it. But you didn't. Which is why I did. 😆