Blinding folks with Canmephian Science...

[strredwolf]

Researchers trim count of human genes to 20,000-25,000

And the rest is junk -- about 38.5 million, from my guess out of reading the article.  Plenty of room!  Therefore, the Cobrawolf gengineering techniques of optimizing a person's DNA like it was a hard drive and using the resulting space to code up shapeshifters is rather plausible.

Comments

[shadesfox.livejournal.com]

Defragging DNA?

[xaviusarchangel.livejournal.com]

NTFS5 > FAT32 :D

[shadesfox.livejournal.com]

in seek time sure

*shifty eyes*

[strredwolf.livejournal.com]

It's sort of like XIP code (eXecute In Place), but with a ton of long-range jumps that they could shorten up, and all the junk can be tossed to the outer realms.

[shadesfox.livejournal.com]

Well, thing is that the junk does actually have a reason to exist. Imagen how much more devastating radiation would be if 100% of the genetic material was used rather then the current 10-20%

Re: Hmm. Perhaps.

[shadesfox.livejournal.com]

Actually, a lot of the data is the same between humans as well. A lot of mutations were lost about 74,000 years ago when the human race was nearly wiped out.

[wynnefox.livejournal.com]

For thosue who didn't see it, I read an artical on wired.com that programers are starting to use algarthems that Scientists use to decode DNA to hack the window's codeing because it's alot more accurate in it's guesses then the old methods.

So Defragging DNA isn't that far off from it.

Neverness

[kazriko.livejournal.com]

Hmm, An old book I read called Neverness actually had trained assassins in it who trimmed down their own DNA to only the essentials. One of them had eventually taken themselves apart and merged into a much larger being.

They discovered a message hidden in all the extra junk, so the super-being with trimmed DNA couldn't figure it out on her own.