iaccidentallyallthephysics:
tumblrpigeon:
beholdtiny:
behold, the world’s tiniest digital storage device: DNA.
Scientists at Harvard have figured out how to store 700 terabytes of information in a single gram of DNA. Read the article here because this concept is far too big and complicated for this tiny blog.
This could also be a step toward teleportation/human teleportation. One of the problems before was just the vast amount of physical space digitizing all that information for teleportation would take. This video talks about it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3HSthDIe2U Beginning right at 4:08
700 Terabytes.
holy balls that’s a lot….
(via likeaphysicist)
11:11 pm • 17 August 2012 • 1,243 notes