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   Retrograde to Mike Spencer   
   Re: Collecting DNA from the air   
   22 Apr 21 00:57:36   
   
   From: fungus@amongus.com.invalid   
      
   On 2021-04-20, Mike Spencer  wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   I'd forgotten about their invulnerability to cancer.  That's an interesting   
   point, and makes them genetically interesting indeed.   
      
   >> Hello autocratic dystopia!   
   >   
   > Remember audio ads addressing passers-by by name in public places in   
   > "Minority Report"?  (Implied retinal, not DNA, ID though)   
      
   Hell, search for any single thing on Amazon these days and those ads will   
   follow you around the web for weeks.  We're part way there already, sadly.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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