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
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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
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