Re: OT: Intelligent Falling

On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 17:00:30 +0100, Paul Burke <paul@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:


>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.


But the chemists themselves are already made of DNA. So all you'd
prove with all that money is that DNA can synthesize simpler
molecules, and we know that already.


John


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