https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gattaca
Gattaca is a 1997 American science fiction film written and directed by Andrew Niccol. It stars Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman, with Jude Law, Loren Dean, Ernest Borgnine, Gore Vidal, and Alan Arkin appearing in supporting roles.[2] The film presents a biopunk vision of a future society driven by eugenics where potential children are conceived through genetic manipulation to ensure they possess the best hereditary traits of their parents.[3] The film centers on Vincent Freeman, played by Hawke, who was conceived outside the eugenics program and struggles to overcome genetic discrimination to realize his dream of traveling into space.
The movie draws on concerns over reproductive technologies which facilitate eugenics, and the possible consequences of such technological developments for society. It also explores the idea of destiny and the ways in which it can and does govern lives. Characters in Gattaca continually battle both with society and with themselves to find their place in the world and who they are destined to be according to their genes.
The film’s title is based on the first letters of guanine, adenine, thymine, and cytosine, the four nucleobases of DNA.[4] It was a 1997 nominee for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score.
Interesting concept. I would think such bacteria would not live very long after it has left it’s host. Maybe our tracking tools are about to improve.
That’s how bloodhounds do it.
how do you think dogs track us?
Next science discovery : Water is Wet, could allow wet footprints to be used to track us
Something I really didn't need to know.
We are just vehicles for our microbe masters.
(Yes, tracking is more realistic than an ID).
This tracking probably works better with hippies.
Won’t work.
Once thieves know about it, they’ll bring outside residue to cover their tracks. Heck, someone will even start manufacturing “anti-tracking biotic residues” for privacy purposes.
OK... so how does a bloodhound do it? Tell different scent traces apart, track them for miles?
Is it a bacterial mix? Or something else?
Let’s ask McGruff the Crime Dog!
Wasn’t there a Tom Cruise movie about this? Or was it Keanu Reeves?
Kind of like a natural “spy dust” from forty years ago. Remember when the Russians would plant some in a person’s apartment and could track them wherever they went by looking for spy dust particles?
I love my microherds.
I am sure there is a trail.
But it goes beyond dreaming to think that anyone could follow it, or get a conviction beyond reasonable doubt.
I remember a few years back a couple college students thought of a great project - to classify and identify all life forms in one cubic centimeter of sea water.
They thought there would be one hundred, maybe two hundred species of bacteria.
Last I heard they were up over 25,000 and still counting!
Vegans? Now, that's weird.