Comments on: DNA’s half-life identified using fossil bones http://www.kurzweilai.net/dnas-half-life-identified-using-fossil-bones Accelerating Intelligence Sat, 18 May 2013 04:59:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: cabriloboy http://www.kurzweilai.net/dnas-half-life-identified-using-fossil-bones/comment-page-1#comment-40703 cabriloboy Thu, 11 Oct 2012 03:05:36 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=166691#comment-40703 I fully agree. I fully agree.

]]> By: GatorALLin http://www.kurzweilai.net/dnas-half-life-identified-using-fossil-bones/comment-page-1#comment-40637 GatorALLin Thu, 11 Oct 2012 00:03:32 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=166691#comment-40637 meant to include this link for the wolly mammoth (this should provide good samples) http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2012/10/05/jm-mammoth-discovery.cnn meant to include this link for the wolly mammoth (this should provide good samples) http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2012/10/05/jm-mammoth-discovery.cnn

]]> By: GatorALLin http://www.kurzweilai.net/dnas-half-life-identified-using-fossil-bones/comment-page-1#comment-40635 GatorALLin Thu, 11 Oct 2012 00:02:45 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=166691#comment-40635 So I have 3 things I want to bring back. #1 Bring back Einstein... or at least bring back a clone... lets see what he can do in round #2. We may need him for this space travel speed problem we seem to be stuck on.... #2 Bring back a wolly mammoth... Yeah I would pay money to ride one at the fair.....you know that would be cool to stomp around on a live wolly mammoth at the next medieval fair you visit.... #3 Lets bring back Elvis.... You know that would be cool... So I have 3 things I want to bring back.

#1 Bring back Einstein… or at least bring back a clone… lets see what he can do in round #2. We may need him for this space travel speed problem we seem to be stuck on….

#2 Bring back a wolly mammoth… Yeah I would pay money to ride one at the fair…..you know that would be cool to stomp around on a live wolly mammoth at the next medieval fair you visit….

#3 Lets bring back Elvis…. You know that would be cool…

]]> By: asiwel http://www.kurzweilai.net/dnas-half-life-identified-using-fossil-bones/comment-page-1#comment-40572 asiwel Wed, 10 Oct 2012 19:35:12 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=166691#comment-40572 DNA or other stable chemical compound "half-life" seems an odd concept to me. Obviously any complex molecule is likely to break down some time - cosmic rays, temperature change, etc. But on the other hand, until such event, stable means stable. I also thought the idea for reconstructing dinosaur, etc., DNA was based on analyzing and "reassembling" many billions of very small molecular fragments ... a biostatistical exercise ... of which there should be plenty to be found in an intact dinosaur skeleton, one would think. That, after all, was the original way the human genome was sequenced and reconstructed, wasn't it? DNA or other stable chemical compound “half-life” seems an odd concept to me. Obviously any complex molecule is likely to break down some time – cosmic rays, temperature change, etc. But on the other hand, until such event, stable means stable. I also thought the idea for reconstructing dinosaur, etc., DNA was based on analyzing and “reassembling” many billions of very small molecular fragments … a biostatistical exercise … of which there should be plenty to be found in an intact dinosaur skeleton, one would think. That, after all, was the original way the human genome was sequenced and reconstructed, wasn’t it?

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