A new VOEvent transport protocol?

[Matthew Graham]

Hi,

And if the cockroaches are then eaten by a bird then we can make use of 
the avian carrier RFC to distribute the data archive.

    Cheers,

    Matthew

Joshua Bloom wrote:
> 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
>>
>
>