From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Mon Sep 09 2002 - 18:49:08 MDT
On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Rafal Smigrodzki wrote:
> The same approach can be used for the seed - if only one nanoassembler
> survives and finds at least one copy of uncorrupted data, you've just bagged
> yourself a new solar system.
It goes deeper than that. As shotgun sequencing shows, it is not
necessary to show that a complete program is available -- only that
you might assemble such a program. This lowers the bar with respect
to what must be preserved.
It raises some interesting questions with respect to the assembly
of extinct genomes. Yes their genomes are fragmented. But if I
have enough copies of 20 base pair overlaps I can reconstruct them
as their OEM forms would be.
R.
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