From: Spike Jones (spike66@ibm.net)
Date: Tue Nov 10 1998 - 23:15:13 MST
Anders Sandberg wrote: According to the chemistry textbook I have
> in my bookshelf the abundancy in living material is one in 10^12.
> The human genome is roughly 6e9 nucleotides, each having around
> 10 carbon atoms ...
thanks anders. i cant find in my modern physics book the number
of C14 abundance. if it is one in 10^12, my calc was off by
a mere 5 orders of magnitude. {8^D i think peter passaro wrote:
> ...Only one in roughly ten million carbon atoms
> is a C-14 atom and with a half life of 6000 years this is not a very
> frequent event...
im a space type not a biology type. which of the above is right,
10^7 or 10^12? spike
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