Re: FTL COMMUNICATIONS

B Lin wrote:

> Second, memory storage will be molecular - either atomic or genetic.
The human genome is 3 billion base pairs (base 4) and the entire package
to replicate, maintain, read, copy, transcribe etc fits into a package
less than a millimeter across.	3 gigs per cubic mm is a pretty good
storage amount.  And when you consider that it's base 4, not base 2,
it's really like 12.2 terabytes based on an 8 (base 4 vs base 2) bit
byte.  In a cubic centimeter, that would be 12.2 bevabytes(?) of
storage.  Plus you get one level of redundancy since the data is paired
with a complementary strand. The atomic level storage is probably about
the same with readable atoms 12-14 angstroms apart, although I believe
that currently the atoms are only binary. Even if the maintenance
systems for the memory were the size of a suitcase it would be a trivial
amount of mass to transport.