A new VOEvent transport protocol?

[Joshua Bloom]

Fairly lossy data transfer ... each transcription is like copying a  
VHS tape.

My favorite entry for the y2k time capsule contest (*) in the  
American Museum of Natural history was even cooler:

"JARON LANIER (U.S.), along with two colleagues (a Columbia  
University neurologist and a technical illustrator), brought their  
creativity to bear on genetics in an amazing plan. All living things  
contain DNA, including some strands called introns. The proposal is  
to translate the contents of all the millennium issues of The New  
York Times Magazine from two-digit (0-1) computer code into four- 
digit DNA language (A-G-C-T) and then load that information onto the  
introns of a cockroach. After 14 years of interbreeding, every New  
York City cockroach involved would carry this information in its DNA  
— making every cockroach in the city an "archival" cockroach."

(*) http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/timescapsule/

On May 16, 2007, at 3:28 PM, Rob Seaman wrote:

> http://www.salon.com/wire/ap/archive.html?wire=D8P5JTJG0.html
>