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A comment on Dead Sea dates grown from 2000-year-old seeds.

Re:Dead Sea dates grown from 2000-year-old seeds by annoyingnoob on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @01:03PM (#22300759)
You will never see, "DOS booted from 2000-year-old floppy". That is some amazing staying power and a great outcome. I wonder what else we can bring back.
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Re:Dead Sea dates grown from 2000-year-old seeds by modzu on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @02:45PM (#22301987)
there is a tradeoff here though: that floppy can be erased and rewritten easily. dna not so much.
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Re:Dead Sea dates grown from 2000-year-old seeds by pixl97 on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @07:56PM (#22304691)
DNA rewrites itself all the time... we just cant change it at will, much, yet.
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Re:Dead Sea dates grown from 2000-year-old seeds by sandoooo on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @05:33PM (#22303689)
Well, we might in 2000 years.
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Re:Dead Sea dates grown from 2000-year-old seeds by annoyingnoob on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @06:14PM (#22303998)
Chances are that I won't be here to see it.
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Re:Dead Sea dates grown from 2000-year-old seeds by abacadaba on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @08:21PM (#22304805)
maybe you'll be on the floppy
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Re:Dead Sea dates grown from 2000-year-old seeds by annoyingnoob on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @09:32PM (#22305203)
When we set the upper limit of PC-DOS at 640K, we thought nobody would ever need that much memory. — William Gates
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Re:Dead Sea dates grown from 2000-year-old seeds by annoyingnoob on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @09:33PM (#22305208)
I would read that book.
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