Re:How to store data for a billion years
by lacker on Thursday June 18, 2009 @11:22AM
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Junk DNA actually changes a whole lot because there's little or no evolutionary downside to mutations there.
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That's a good point. I had assumed that since There's no evolutionary pressure it wouldn't be forced into changing as much as active DNA is. You could encode it to multiple areas that must be checked against each other.