Sometimes my brain ties together things that are better left alone.
Here are three things I've thought about recently:
- Microchip designers often embed microscopic messages on the surface
of the chip as a way of signing their work.
- DNA has a lot of "junk" parts that don't seem to have any function.
- A lot of people think evolution is obviously "designed" by someone.
I wonder if any cryptographers have looked at that junk DNA to see if
it's a message from the designer. I'm guessing that it's a code that
says something like, "I am Kaloopah, from the star system Nebulon IV. I
have sent this evolution program into space as my eighth grade science
project."
I imagine that a few thousand years from now, when scientists have
learned to manipulate DNA, we'll be launching evolution programs into the
cosmos, programmed to seek any planet that has the right environment.
The rocket will land and spill its primordial goo, programmed with
evolutionary preferences such as gender, eyeballs, limbs, mobility, and the
urge to sit in cubicles while complaining about coworkers.
Evolution on that new planet would be programmed to develop over a few
billion years to resemble us, obviously, because we're spectacularly
vain, so we'd write the DNA program to turn out that way. There'd be no
point in going to all that trouble just to create the Giant Chipmunk
Planet.
This doesn't answer the question of who created the original aliens.
But I suspect that the only way time can be infinite is if the past
connects to the future like some huge Mobius strip-wormhole kind of deal.
All you need to make this hypothetical system work is people like us who
evolve and create new planets, who in turn evolve and create more new
planets, until time loops back to our past and we get created again. In
other words, we'd HAVE to evolve to the point where we could create a
new planet or else we wouldn't exist in the present. Freaky, huh?
(taken from dilbert newsletter)
Originally posted by villa68Very Very deep.
Sometimes my brain ties together things that are better left alone.
Here are three things I've thought about recently:
- Microchip designers often embed microscopic messages on the surface
of the chip as a way of signing their work.
- DNA has a lot of "junk" parts that don't seem to have any function.
- A lot of people think evolution is obv ...[text shortened]... t or else we wouldn't exist in the present. Freaky, huh?
(taken from dilbert newsletter)
