From: mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere   
      
   Retrograde  writes:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   Signal to noise ratio?  NMRs live in tunnels, closed culture, minimal   
   air exchange/flow.  Ther must be a huge amount of crap in the air   
   where urban rats live.  And as NMRs live some 30 years and are more or   
   less immune to cancer, their DNA might be very 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!   
      
   Remember audio ads addressing passers-by by name in public places in   
   "Minority Report"?  (Implied retinal, not DNA, ID though)   
      
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   Mike Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada   
      
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