Scifi/Paranormal
A dark mystery yet to be unfolded.
An incident that abruptly altered the life of a simple girl.
The catalyst of the Devil to accomplish centuries old plan, exploiting ancient and modern inventions.
But the...
Masama ang gising ngayon ni Ulysses kahit pa kahapon ay lumabas sila ni Yasmine para sa pahabol na selebrasyon sa kanyang 27th birthday noong January 5. Halos isang buwan kasi s'yang tutok sa kanilang Project. Kahit pa nga tawag at pagbating text ni Yasmine sa araw ng kanyang kaarawan ay gabi na n'ya nabasa. Nagdala na lang din si Meynard ng pansit, puto at lechon manok at hindi nakalimutan ang isang case na beer pilsen para sa refill nito sa ref. Dumalaw din si Art nang saglit para personal na bumati at maki-update na rin sa ginagawa ni Ulysses. Nito kasing mga nakaraang linggo, hinayaan muna ni Art si Ulysses sa kanyang ginagawa para makapag-concentrate ito at nasiyahan naman si Art sa development.
Pero nanatiling lihim ang natuklasan nina Ulysses at Meynard noong December 21. Nangako naman kasi si Ulysses na hindi n'ya yun pag-aaralan kahit pa nga nagdududa dito si Meynard.
Mabigat ang katawan ni Ulysses at para s'yang lalagnatin. Umeepekto na ang sobrang n'yang pagpupuyat kung saan halos tatlong oras na lang ang tulog n'ya. Ngayon pa namang gabi ang ipinangako n'yang date sa kanyang mga magulang. Hindi pwedeng hindi n'ya yun tuparin. Kaya para makasiguro, Advil at Biogesic ang kanyang panangga.
Bago s'ya bumaba para mag-almusal, binuksan n'ya muna ang kanyang laptop. Facebook ang kanyang unang sinilip. Isang tagged picture galing kay Yasmine na kuha kahapon ang agad naman n'yang linayk at nagcomment na 'Thanks for the company kahit pa expired na masyado...hehe.' Alam n'ya sa kanyang sarili na malayo na ang agwat n'ya kay Miko at kompyensya s'ya na sasagutin na s'ya nito sa mga susunod na buwan kahit pa magiging busy na naman s'ya lalo nitong darating na March.
Sunod n'yang binuksan ang kanyang email. Karamihan ay galing sa dati n'yang naging kliyente at humihiling na kung p'wede ay makuha muli ang kanyang serbisyo. Pakatapos na lang n'ya mag-almusal sasagutin ang mga yun.
Isang padalang linked articles naman ang nakapukaw pansin sa kanya. Galing ito sa theage.com/au. Nag-subscribe kasi s'ya dito dahil naintriga s'ya sa ilang artikulo na inilathala nito na may kinalaman sa technology. Agad n'ya itong binuksan at nakalimutan saglit ang kanyang nararamdaman.
Breakthrough In Storing 700 Terabytes of Data In 1 Gram of DNA January 24, 2013 Data could be stored in DNA for years
Scientists in Britain on Wednesday announced a breakthrough in the quest to turn DNA into a revolutionary form of data storage.
A speck of man-made DNA can hold mountains of data that can be freeze-dried, shipped and stored, potentially for thousands of years, they said.
The contents are "read" by sequencing the DNA — as is routinely done today, in genetic fingerprinting and so on — and turning it back into computer code.
"We already know that DNA is a robust way to store information because we can extract it from bones of woolly mammoths, which date back tens of thousands of years, and make sense of it," said Nick Goldman of the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) in Cambridge.
"It's also incredibly small, dense and does not need any power for storage, so shipping and keeping it is easy."
DNA is the famous double helix of compounds - a long, coiled molecular "ladder" comprising four chemical rungs, adenine, cytosine, guanine and thymine, which team up in pairs. C teams up with G, and T teams up with A. The letter sequence comprises the genome, or the chemical blueprint for making and sustaining life. Human DNA has more than three billion letters, coiled into packages of 24 chromosomes.
The project entails taking data in the form of zeros and 1s in computing's binary code, and transcribing it into "Base-3" code, which uses zeros, 1s and 2s.
The data is transcribed for a second time into DNA code, which is based on the A, C, G and T. A block of five letters is used for a single binary digit. The letters are then turned into molecules, using lab-dish chemicals. The work does not entail using any living DNA, nor does it seek to create any life form and in fact the man-made code would be quite useless in anything biological, the researchers said.
"We have absolutely no intention of messing with life," said Goldman. Only short strings of DNA can be made, which means the message has to be chopped up into small sections of 117 letters, each attached to a tiny address tag, rather like packet-switching in internet data, which enables data to be reassembled.
To prove their concept, the team encoded an MP3 recording of Martin Luther King's "I Have A Dream" speech; a digital photo of their lab; a PDF of the landmark study in 1953 that described the structure of DNA; a file of all of Shakespeare's sonnets; and a document that describes the data storage technique.
"We downloaded the files from the web and used them to synthesise hundreds of thousands of pieces of DNA. The result looks like a tiny piece of dust," said Emily Leproust of Agilent, a US biotech company that took the digital data and used it to synthesise molecules of DNA in the lab.
Agilent then mailed the sample back across the Atlantic to the EBI, where the researchers soaked the DNA in water to reconstitute it and used standard sequencing machines to unravel the code. They recovered and read the files with 100 per cent accuracy.
The work follows a big step last year when scientists at Harvard announced they had stored 700 terabytes of data — enough for around 70,000 movies — in a gram of DNA...
"Wow, p'wede palang mag-save ng malaking data file sa mismong DNA. Kailangan itong mabasa ni Sir Art." Napangiti na lang s'ya dahil may pagkakapareho ang technique ni ginagamit nila ni Art. Binary code din kasi ang ginagamit sa computing ngayon kung saan ganun din ang makikita sa DNA. Napaisip tuloy si Ulysses sa argumento na kung ang isip kaya ng tao sa hinaharap ay pwede na rin maihalintulad sa computer at ang computer kaya pwede rin maging as complex as the human brain. One thing lang na mahirap ma-decode ay ang emotion or consciousness na s'yang malaking problema ngayon ni Ulysses. Nagprint siya ng copya para ipabasa kay Art.
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The article posted here is true and in toto. Here is the link: http://www.theage.com.au/technology/sci-tech/breakthrough-in-storing-700-terabytes-of-data-in-1-gram-of-dna-20130124-2d89q.html#ixzz2XjHO5n2K
