A Nobel Prize winning biologist says that a fragment of DNA "teleported" itself between test tubes in his lab, meaning that it demonstrated the quantum ability of being non-local, i.e. in two places at the same time. What are we, anyway? Since DNA is the basic building block of all life on Earth, perhaps we are actually quantum beings (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to these shows).
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Researchers recently revived ancient bacteria that had been trapped for thousands of years in water droplets embedded in salt crystals. Is this a good idea? This bacteria been found inside salt crystals ranging in age from thousands to hundreds of millions years old.
Researcher J. Koji Lum says, "You have a little trapped ecosystem. Some of these guys are feeding on other ones trapped in this space. The things that aren’t alive in there, their DNA is still preserved."
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But how and who owns it? – If December 21st, 2012, really does bring ominous news, or an asteroid wipes out most of the life on Earth, the human race won’t end if we’ve stored away some DNA. But it would be stored on computers and no one knows how long computer hard drives could last.
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And DNA is telepathic! – On the Discovery Channel website, Luke Mckinney reports that all DNA strands are built out of a set of 20 amino acids and scientists now think that the first 10 may occur throughout the universe, meaning they could have arrived on earth on asteroids from deep space for from other planets. And strands of DNA seem to have a form of telepathy, since they have been able to “find” other strands at a distance with no known form of communication between them.
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