Human genome stored on ‘everlasting’ memory crystal

Chizz

Scientists at the University of Southampton have created a 5D memory crystal that can store the entire human genome for billions of years. This amazing technology could help revive extinct species in the distant future, as it can hold tons of data without degrading, even in extreme conditions. The crystal is super tough, able to withstand heat, cold, and impact, and it includes visual clues to help future finders understand its contents. Essentially, it’s like a time capsule for our genetic information that could last long after we’re gone. 

Whose genome would you pick as the human exemplar? In other words, after the human race has become extinct, which one individual would you use to repopulate humanity? 

blackpool72

Nigel Farage 

Scoham

https://youtu.be/D8zlUUrFK-M?si=-By8gSWT46phvUlQ One step closer

swordfish

You'd need one of each and it holds the information for a male and a female.

Too late for Arthur Mullard and Hylda Baker I suppose. Shame. 

Stig

If the human race ends itself, it must never be artificially recreated. We've had our chance and we look like we're blowing it big time. If we survive as a species then there will be no need to pick an exemplar. If we don't, then we don't deserve a second chance to mess up this fabulous planet once again. I'm sure that there are millions of potential uses for the technology, recreating the human race isn't one of them. Probably the most important use we could make of the technology in the event of our demise would be to tell the story of how our selfishness, greed, laziness and general inability to do the right thing have contributed to our downfall, so that future species can learn from us.

Stig

swordfish said:

You'd need one of each and it holds the information for a male and a female.

Too late for Arthur Mullard and Hylda Baker I suppose. Shame. 

You're the one that I want.

Mendonca In Asdas

Which one human would I use to recreate humanity?

Only one man up to the task, Michael Appleton,
no ifs, no buts.

RodneyCharltonTrotta

Steve Ogrizovic

Algarveaddick

Stig said:

If the human race ends itself, it must never be artificially recreated. We've had our chance and we look like we're blowing it big time. If we survive as a species then there will be no need to pick an exemplar. If we don't, then we don't deserve a second chance to mess up this fabulous planet once again. I'm sure that there are millions of potential uses for the technology, recreating the human race isn't one of them. Probably the most important use we could make of the technology in the event of our demise would be to tell the story of how our selfishness, greed, laziness and general inability to do the right thing have contributed to our downfall, so that future species can learn from us.

Still, mustn't grumble... 

red10

Lemmy and Chrissy Hynde or Debbie H

cafcpolo

I'm voting for Sydney Sweeney and uhhhh...myself.

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Katie Price and Robin Askwith

hermann

Stig said:

If the human race ends itself, it must never be artificially recreated. We've had our chance and we look like we're blowing it big time. If we survive as a species then there will be no need to pick an exemplar. If we don't, then we don't deserve a second chance to mess up this fabulous planet once again. I'm sure that there are millions of potential uses for the technology, recreating the human race isn't one of them. Probably the most important use we could make of the technology in the event of our demise would be to tell the story of how our selfishness, greed, laziness and general inability to do the right thing have contributed to our downfall, so that future species can learn from us.

Spoken like a true CAFC fan

jimmymelrose

Pierre and Marie Curie and Ghandi.

Humanity would stand a decent chance.

Bedsaddick

Larry Grayson

LargeAddick

Keir Starmer and Liz Truss 😂

Leuth

Stig said:

If the human race ends itself, it must never be artificially recreated. We've had our chance and we look like we're blowing it big time. If we survive as a species then there will be no need to pick an exemplar. If we don't, then we don't deserve a second chance to mess up this fabulous planet once again. I'm sure that there are millions of potential uses for the technology, recreating the human race isn't one of them. Probably the most important use we could make of the technology in the event of our demise would be to tell the story of how our selfishness, greed, laziness and general inability to do the right thing have contributed to our downfall, so that future species can learn from us.

Superintelligent crow species debating whether to implant the mysteriously preserved genome crystal into a mammalian ovum: weren't these the idiots who ruined it all? Yeah let's leave it