Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!munnari!murdu!sam From: sam@murdu.OZ (Sam Ganesan) Newsgroups: sci.bio Subject: Re: Re: DNA for interstellar messages Message-ID: <1410@murdu.OZ> Date: 8 Jul 88 00:56:28 GMT References: <4719@gryphon.CTS.COM> <1027@ih1ap.ATT.COM> Reply-To: sam@murdu.UUCP (Sam Ganesan) Organization: Microbiology, Melbourne Uni, Australia Lines: 20 In article <1027@ih1ap.ATT.COM> dlp@ih1ap.ATT.COM (Random @ rebmA) writes: >> >> 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). The author, I am pretty sure is Michael Crichton. Sam Ganesan ****************************************************************************** E - mail : ACSnet: sam@murdu.mu.oz JANET: sam%murdu.mu.oz@uk.ac.ukc ARPA : sam%murdu.mu.oz.au@uunet.uu.net sam%murdu.mu.oz@uk.ac.ean-relay UUCP : {uunet,pyramid,mcvax,nttlab}!munnari!murdu.mu.oz.au!sam Snail : Sam Ganesan, Microbiology Dept,Melbourne University, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia. ******************************************************************************