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To: JockoManning

Our question--does DNA have THAT ROBUST a data capacity in gigabytes or terabytes or whatever terms?
Yes.

Harvard cracks DNA storage, crams 700 terabytes of data into a single gram
As technology increases so will the volume. Just touching the surface. Research still ongoing. RNA could provide even more.

Rev. 20:12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.

Our DNA could be that book.
Lexicon :: Strong's G976 - biblos
βίβλος, βίβλου, ἡ (or rather ἡ βύβλος (but the form βίβλος is more common when it denotes a writing), the plant called papyrus, Theophrastus, hist. plant. 4, 8, 2f; (Pliny, h. n. 13, 11f (21f)); from its bark (rather, the cellular substance of its stem (for it was an endogenous plant)) paper was made...

2,593 posted on 04/22/2018 1:48:01 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)

Interesting. Thanks for the links.

2,596 posted on 04/22/2018 1:50:34 PM PDT by JockoManning (http://www.zazzle.com/brain_truth for hats T's e.g. STAY CALM & DO THE NEXT LOVING THING)

I wonder ... how many terabytes would it take to store just the 24/7/365 video of a 90 year lifetime?

2,601 posted on 04/22/2018 1:53:33 PM PDT by JockoManning (http://www.zazzle.com/brain_truth for hats T's e.g. STAY CALM & DO THE NEXT LOVING THING)

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