Arreat Posted February 1, 2006 Posted February 1, 2006 Bacterial Protein Memory Link One of the first forms of life on our planet - a protein grown by salt marsh bacteria at least2.3 billion years ago - is likely to become the wave of the future in computer data storage and manipulation, according to chemistry Professor Robert Birge, whose research is closing in on the possibility. Bacteriorhodopson is one of the first life forms on earth. It is a protein by salt marshes. It is the future of computers. It is extremely efficient at convering light to energy, and has the ability to be stored in 3D, as the human brain.The government has Cuvettes (the actual chip) that stores 20 Terabytes, or, 2x the USA Library of Congress. What does this all mean to us?! A 10GB Cuvette would cost $10. For $100, you could have all the memory you will ever need. (and it will work as a USB drive. Keep it in your pocket). Dude is holding 2 Cuvettes (20 terabytes I think)
BongoBob Posted February 1, 2006 Posted February 1, 2006 Holy shiz, I read something about this on howstuffworks.com, but it was for processors, but hell, same diff right?
IG-64 Posted February 1, 2006 Posted February 1, 2006 You know, after looking into this more, this article was written in fall of 2000. I also can't find any wikipedia pages on the subject. Seriously though, even if it is still being developed (or even real for that matter) when would we see this kind of thing at say, your local Best Buy?
TiE23 Posted February 1, 2006 Posted February 1, 2006 You know, after looking into this more, this article was written in fall of 2000. God damn! You had to ruin it! **** **** ****! I was so excited! :'( Maybe they're still researching the stuff. Besides, we still have that lightcube-processor thingy. We can count on that
IG-64 Posted February 1, 2006 Posted February 1, 2006 God damn! You had to ruin it! **** **** ****! I was so excited! :'( Um, sorry?
TiE23 Posted February 1, 2006 Posted February 1, 2006 Um, sorry? *continues emotional breakdown, eats entire bag of Oreos with a gallon of whole milk, contemplates suicide then remembers that Oblivion is not out yet* :'( Bleh, it was cool for 5 seconds anyway.
Nerd_Annhilator Posted February 1, 2006 Posted February 1, 2006 My yoghurt can store up to 1000TB of data! . . . Don't give me that look.
Sabretooth Posted February 1, 2006 Posted February 1, 2006 ...wikipedia... *pours acid down IG's throat and flings him out of the window* NO. Anyways, this thing looks sweet, but really what if it decays, or dies or something like that? And, about the light to energy part, what if some fat boy eats the thing thinking it's an energy bar?
toms Posted February 1, 2006 Posted February 1, 2006 Is it ethical to enslave bacteria for our computing needs? Would you have to feed your computer? What if it rebels? I for one welcome our new brain-eating Bacterial Protein Computer overlords...
Arreat Posted February 1, 2006 Author Posted February 1, 2006 BLAST! I didn't know it was outdated. Ah well, its probably still in the works or something...
TiE23 Posted February 1, 2006 Posted February 1, 2006 ...wikipedia... *pours acid down IG's throat and flings him out of the window* NO. Oh, almost forgot... Ig-64 plays:
ET Warrior Posted February 1, 2006 Posted February 1, 2006 I wouldn't be so quick to write it off, 5 years is not a long amount of time for reasearch into a brand new technology that is completely different from what is already established. I HIGHLY doubt it's a fake, most universities aren't big on phoney information on their websites.
TiE23 Posted February 1, 2006 Posted February 1, 2006 I wouldn't be so quick to write it off, 5 years is not a long amount of time for reasearch into a brand new technology that is completely different from what is already established. I HIGHLY doubt it's a fake, most universities aren't big on phoney information on their websites. Well, that's what I've been thinking, I wonder how their progress is. I hope they didn't just stop researching it or something. Cause that would be a bummer. :\
The Seeker Posted February 1, 2006 Posted February 1, 2006 Would you have to feed your computer? What if it rebels? well, my current computer is currently rebelling without primitive lifeforms prancing around in it. Lousy, unorganic computer.
IG-64 Posted February 1, 2006 Posted February 1, 2006 *pours acid down IG's throat and flings him out of the window* NO. Uhh, something I missed? What's wrong with wikipedia? I HIGHLY doubt it's a fake, most universities aren't big on phoney information on their websites. I didn't say it was fake, just bringing up the point that theres not much news on it and that article is pretty old, so maybe something went wrong? Or maybe it's still a very long way off?
Black Knight of Keno Posted February 1, 2006 Posted February 1, 2006 I would like to see what would the little buddies think if I dropped a drop of antibiotics on them... ...while my computer was running with those as the memory *Starts to plot yet another plan of world domination and names it Plan G-33-K*
Mike Windu Posted February 2, 2006 Posted February 2, 2006 I'm with IG. What's wrong with wiki? Woah, Alliteration for the win. Anyway, this looks cool, but there might be some anti bacteria slavery protests..
Tyrion Posted February 2, 2006 Posted February 2, 2006 Heh, what if the bacterias use biological data stored on them to evolve into super organisms that can easily kill us? Oh the irony.
toms Posted February 2, 2006 Posted February 2, 2006 What if I get a virus? Maybe if they use penicillin then this will be the first computer memory with built in anti-virus.
El Sitherino Posted February 2, 2006 Posted February 2, 2006 YOUR COMPUTER JUST GAVE YOU AIDS! Oh 4chan, how much fun you'll be with biocomputers.
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