Re: OT: Intelligent Falling

I read in sci.electronics.design that Paul Burke <paul@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote (in <3n3kjkF19dg95U1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>) about 'OT: Intelligent Falling', on Wed, 24 Aug 2005:
If I were rich enough to buy Bill Gates, I'd start a competition for ingenious young biochemists- to synthesise, from scratch (i.e. from substances it is agreed could occur naturally), the simplest self- reproducing, stable molecule which carries a few hundred bits of information.

This is already being done. I didn't see any reports of a successful outcome.
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