[DManA]

could be about to be decoded

Could be, maybe not. While it's nice to hear about what people are working on it would be nice once in a while to read a story about an actual discovery.

[bgill]

You know that once they claim it's been decoded, someone will come along 10 years later and prove it's something totally different. It almost makes me want to carved a stone with gobblety goop and bury it in the backyard in hopes someone digs it up in 5000 years.

[Textide]

That jumped out at me too.

could be about to be

I'm using that in the next report to my boss: "That project could be about to be finished."