E. Coli Bacteria into Hard Drives - Polidicks

[QUOTE=Dlaor-guy;27353739]And then the bacteria die and you lose all your data.[/QUOTE] Please read the dam thing all the way

[QUOTE=ineedateam1;27353938]Please read the dam thing all the way[/QUOTE] what's the load speed though...?

[b][i]Science![/i][/b]

Up next: storing data in human DNA - use your body as a hard drive!

[QUOTE=David29;27354066]Up next: storing data in human DNA - use your body as a hard drive![/QUOTE] You know they kinda could....

Maximum science! Now we can become portable hard drives.

900 TB per 1 Gram That would be 90 TB for 10 milligram I mean holy shit

Holy mother of god I read the title and now my pants are white. Whiter.

now they need to learn to implant data into human brain cells

A gram? That's a lot of E. Coli.

This makes porta-potties the ultimate server farms, as long as you get networking and everything set up.

[QUOTE=Alcapwne;27354571]now they need to learn to implant data into human brain cells[/QUOTE] While i love this idea - i can see it being able to be abused by soccer mom's or people who want to push there agenda onto people....

All this time we've had to deal with viruses, now we have to deal with computer bacteria?

[QUOTE=Arachnidus;27354582]A gram? That's a lot of E. Coli.[/QUOTE] Yeah well 900TB is pretty fucking ridiculous.

I had to amputate my graphics card :frown:

So would these still be vulnerable to emp's?(like a sun flare)

[QUOTE=David29;27354066]Up next: storing data in human DNA - use your body as a hard drive![/QUOTE] Theoretically, you could implant data on any DNA. E.Coli was chosen because of it's long history of easy biological manipulation. With the proper plasmids and restriction enzymes, you really could cultivate E coli for any purpose. [QUOTE=cathal6606;27354945]So would these still be vulnerable to emp's?(like a sun flare)[/QUOTE] No, but it will be damaged by various forms of radiation.

Woah this is impressive

hasn't this been the plot of like a dozen cyberthriller novels

Yeah, some asshole that has an issue with the "drive" will open it up to try and fix it, get sick and die, then they will be banned. :smith:

[QUOTE=macacan;27352944]I wonder if it can corrupt over time? Like genetic mutations destroy the integrity of the data, maybe.[/QUOTE] Until they can protect the parts of DNA used for data storage against mutation they will have to save everything redundant and regularly repair the mutated data.

Just so the stupid people know the vast majority of E. Coli strains are harmless such as the ones found in your intestines right now.

What if... WE have billions and billions of TB of alien data secretly imprinted into us, and we are meerly biodrives for a much larger sentient alien race, with the Earth being like one giant bittorent client? :psyduck:

So how do you hook it up to a computer?

[QUOTE=ineedateam1;27353003]Highly unlikely, and since the bacteria keep replicating they could feasibly store data reliably for millennia[/QUOTE] I don't think that's right. Bacteria adapt to different surroundings really fast because they can duplicate every 20 mins (mutations, natural selection)

This all sounds great, but what if you take your computer into Futureshop or something to get the hard drive repaired? Technician takes it out and goes "oh fuck now I have E. Coli"

No time for puns here gentlemen, we're working on developing biological machines That is too awesome to make light of

[QUOTE=Zeke129;27356029]No time for puns here gentlemen, we're working on developing biological machines That is too awesome to make light of[/QUOTE] Nothing is too awesome to make light of. NOTHING.

Does this mean I could make a Skin Hard drive? Brb Dick Thumb Dirve

[QUOTE=zydos;27355969]This all sounds great, but what if you take your computer into Futureshop or something to get the hard drive repaired? Technician takes it out and goes "oh fuck now I have E. Coli"[/QUOTE] Uh... Yeah no..