whar;4817446 said:Not to defend Bambu but a nucleotide of DNA is made up of 5 -6 atom for a phosphate sugar backbone and another 6 -7 atoms for the nucleotide itself. This pairs with a similar phosphate sugar and nucleotide to store a bit. 4 or those should be enough to store a byte which is 8 bits. So I think DNA has a storage density around 100 atoms per byte. There may be ways to improve that as well.
The real power DNA brings is it is self structuring. That is instead of needing to be arrayed across a platter like a traditional hard drive DNA is 3 dimensional. While the per atom rate of storage is comparable the majority of the platter is not used to store data. The cutting edge storage that is being investigated generally relies on crystals that are read with a laser that can penetrate to different depths.
Wow.....
And I was beginning to think that you were a complete moron......
However, I am positive that @RodrigueZz is a fuckin pill........
whar;4817446 said:But even with that Bambu was making some 'other' point that I am not clear on. I suppose that DNA is too complex to evolve or something.
You are getting warm......

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