New York Times article on messages inside Junk DNA

[RedClover]

Hey there! I just ran across this fun little article and though I would share it with you guys. The name of the article is:

Human DNA, the Ultimate Spot for Secret Messages

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/26/science/26DNA.html?_r=3&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin


Cheers-
RedClover

 

[valiens]

From the article....

"Nevertheless, no less a personage than Francis Crick, the co-discoverer of the double helix, writing with the chemist Leslie Orgel, now at the Salk Institute in San Diego, suggested in 1973 that the primitive Earth was infected with DNA broadcast through space by an alien species.

"As a result, it has been suggested that the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI, should look inward as well as outward."

And then, of course, the SETI rep calls bs. Ain't that always the way?

 

[CapnG]

That's because SETI's only interested in keeping SETI funded, something which stops the millisecond they actually FIND something.

 

[ondafritz]

That's because SETI's only interested in keeping SETI funded, something which stops the millisecond they actually FIND something.

Exactly right! Jill Tartar and company have a very vested interest in having no UFO event confirmed. If Roswell turns out to be true (which I believe it is), then, they are all out of jobs.