Thursday, August 16, 2012

The Dole Air Race and DNA Data Storage

It's been another crazy busy week! Summer is running away from me this year. Hope all is well with all of you.

Came across a couple of extra cool things today, so I thought I would pass them along.

DNA as Mass Data Storage?
I have worked extensively with about every DNA manipulation technique there is over the past 14 years. I never even thought about this one! Via iO9:
Soon You'll Be Backing up Your Hard Drive Using DNA
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At theoretical maximum, one gram of single stranded genetic code can encode 455 exabytes of information. That's almost half a billion terabytes, or 4.9 * 1011 GB. (As a point of reference, the latest iPad tops out at 64 GB of storage space.) DNA strands also likes to fold over on top of themselves, meaning that, unlike most other digital storage media, data needn't be restricted to two dimensions; and being able to store data in three-space translates to more free-space.
There are some drawbacks of course and the article clearly covers them (no random access, not re-write able) but as a storage solution it's mind boggling. Take a stroll on over and check it out.

The Dole Air Race 
I always start my day looking at the Wikipedia "This Day in History Section". Never know what you may find.

The Dole Air Race was an airplane race sponsored by James Dole of Hawaii (yes, the pineapple king) and it was to be run from California to Hawaii. The entire story is a must read and I was going to do a write up. Turns out I did not have to.

Patricia Hysell, author of the ultra great site Little Bits of History, was all over it today:
August 16, 1927: The Dole Air Race begins. Lindberg had flown across the Atlantic and inspired by this feat, James D. Dole offered a prize for the flying across the Pacific. Since that ocean is so much larger, the trip would only cover from Oakland, California to Honolulu, Hawaii. The flight would cover 2,400 miles. The first team to accomplish this would receive $25,000 and the second place team would take $10,000. That would be ~$311,000 and $124,000 respectively in today’s currency.
Now if that's all that happened I would not include it. It's a shocking tale! Please take a trip on over and read the whole thing. A reader left a comment on the article, I cannot vouch for the truth of it, but would be nuts if true!

Wikipedia entry:
The Dole Air Race

Have a good night.

36 comments:

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  2. Yes, well, DNA is a lot more complicated than even geneticists will admit.

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    Leverage, Suits, Psych, all the best shows are on cable networks these days.

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  3. James Dole sounded like a manipulating prick, but those aviators probably didn't need much coaxing to try a stunt like that back then, it just seems to be their nature.

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  4. Worthy of a read: Hackers backdoor the human brain, successfully extract sensitive data...

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    At least it's only one way traffic.

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  5. Watchtower, probably correct on both counts!

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    I am in Boston area. Enjoy the NYC trip! Did you try to contact me by my gmail address? I had not seen anything.

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  6. Yup tried Gmail. No worries maybe some other time or place.

    G

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  7. If there is going to be a Friday Night Entertainment, and we know you're busy, but if there is I recommend some good old Mott the Hoople.

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  8. Using DNA as a back-up? Should we be excited or scared?

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  9. Strap in people... what's going on wont end well....

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