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   Retrograde to danny burstein   
   Re: Collecting DNA from the air   
   16 Apr 21 13:20:02   
   
   From: fungus@amongus.com.invalid   
      
   On Fri, 16 Apr 2021 03:55:47 +0000 (UTC)   
   danny burstein  wrote:   
      
   > [snip]   
   >   
   > "The team used   
   > a peristaltic pump combined with pressure filters to grab samples   
   > of naked mole   
   > rat DNA for five to 20 minutes"   
   >   
   > You had me at "naked mole rat".   
      
   Seriously.  Of all the animals to study, why that one?  How about city   
   rats, of which there are billions and whose DNA might be interesting.   
      
   The obvious next step is to create a device that can identify you by   
   your DNA capture, which they get via a sample of your exhalation. When   
   that happens, the days when we worried about our smartphones tracking   
   us (or cookies, for F's sake) will seem quaint by comparison.   
      
   Hello autocratic dystopia!   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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