To: SunkenCiv
Scientists have recently discovered large sequences of "junk" DNA that contain no genes and appears to be very stable.
"If ET has put a message into terrestrial organisms, this is surely where to look," said Davies.
A computer could be used to find obvious attention-grabbing patterns within these stretches of DNA, he said. If a sequence of junk units of DNA were displayed as an array of pixels on a screen and produced a simple image "the presumption of tampering would be inescapable".
The DNA code was easily big enough to contain a decent-sized novel or a potted history of the rise and fall of an alien civilisation.
65 posted on
10/27/2005 5:27:17 AM PDT by
vannrox
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To: vannrox
Four character alphabet? Cuneiform-style compound characters? Unless it's a picture of a face or something along those lines, it may as well be written at the center of the Earth. :')
67 posted on
10/27/2005 6:53:51 AM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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