Xref: utzoo sci.bio:1304 sci.astro:2353 sci.philosophy.tech:652 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!ihnp4!ih1ap!dlp From: dlp@ih1ap.ATT.COM (Random @ rebmA) Newsgroups: sci.bio,sci.astro,sci.philosophy.tech Subject: Re: Re: DNA for interstellar messages Message-ID: <1027@ih1ap.ATT.COM> Date: 6 Jul 88 16:52:04 GMT References: <4719@gryphon.CTS.COM> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois Lines: 9 > > bs_wab@ux63.bath.ac.uk (Bains) writes: >>Around the end of my undergraduate career I remember reading a paper >>on the possibility of using DNA sequences for interstellar communication. You don't mention when this paper was written, but I recall a similar scenario. Check out 'The Andromeda Strain' then 'Mutant 59, The Plastic Eaters' by the same author (whos name escapes me). Random