RE: FTL COMMUNICATIONS

That's using today's technology.  In the future there may be lasers tha
read the major and minor groove of DNA, kinda like reading pits on a CD.
 Or Nanomachines that encircle the DNA and run up and down it like a
read head, measuring the charge on each base pair as it passes by.  At
that scale, you might be able to fit thousands of read heads per strand.
 The statement below is kinda like a 19th century inventor trying to
imagine a flying machine - you could make one, but the steam engine
powerful enough to drive it would mean it would never get off the
ground.  There will be leaps in bounds in technology that will allow
stuff to happen, what they are is anyone's guess right now.  

--Binhan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard and Emily Bell [mailto:rlbell@sympatico.ca]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 4:45 PM
> To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
> Subject: Re: FTL COMMUNICATIONS
> 
> 
> 
> The access times are a real bitch, though.  The human genome 
> project took some time, even with a warehouse full of the 
> fastest available sequencers.  If you cannot read it 
> electronically, it takes too damn long.  You also have the 
> problem that you have to copy it millions of times and chop 
> it into bits to read it.
>