Timeline for Conquering the Galaxy with DNA - What is the best vector?
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| Jan 23, 2019 at 20:51 | comment | added | Graipher | @SRM: And that is where the qualifier "probably" in my first sentence is important. For every reliability threshold you can devise some scheme that gets the error rate below that. But that scheme will be more complicated and harder and harder to implement the higher the reliability threshold. So with the reliability needed here, with all the redundancy checks you would need to add and the ways you would have to modify the cockroach to achieve that, I'm not sure you would still be able to call it a cockroach. | |
| Jan 23, 2019 at 20:44 | comment | added | SRM | In theory, custom-coded DNA could contain enough redundancy checks to make sure that functionality is always copied faithfully. No one has done anything like that to my knowledge, but I’ve seen hypothetical papers exploring super-stable encodings and proteins to enforce the copy checks. I’d accept a sci-fi story that posited such things. | |
| Jan 23, 2019 at 20:23 | history | answered | Graipher | CC BY-SA 4.0 |