RE: FTL COMMUNICATIONS

Quoting B Lin <lin@rxkinetix.com>:

> 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.

That is kind of how natural transcriptors work... they match an
addressing 
segment on the single-strand DNA (something else unzips the two
strands), 
attach to it, and then run down it copying base-pairs. ISTR they move at

something of the order of metres a second down the 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.