The copying error rate is 1 bp per million and can’t be improved. I believe that would be a problem.

Says a guy who doesn’t deal in actual big data... In genomics we’ve been back to sneaker net for a while now. Cloud is helping, but not always enough.

Ha. I can respool that with a pencil while eating a Whopper, driving my VW with my knees.

Well — what about when you can store 25GB of data per inch of tape? Might become a ubiquitous system, no?

Hey — got any drivers for that SCSI array in the closet? I thought not.

Note: the Beatles’ masters are still viable, and think of how shittily they’ve been handled.

Because you automatically recopy it to new tape every few years? How long do you think those platters will keep spinning?

But only second-rate Messican species, right?

Yeah, we had no idea of the extent of Antarctica, within half a percent, until yesterday. Give it up already.

Obvious troll is obvious. Volcanic eruptions are also natural. But if they were to erupt at a rate ten times the background rate averaged over the last BILLION YEARS, it would be a bad sign. Keep fucking that chicken.

Where the hell did you think new world monkeys came from? Amazon?

And yet, CRISPR was used to fix some single-gene genetic disorder in an infant this year....

You know how little you can do with a single gene alteration? You’re not going to create superheroes anytime soon.

First they came for Trayvon Martin...

And yet, nothing will happen to these cops, especially not the prison sentences they deserve. You know what: #yesallcops.

Yeah, the millions of Somali people who only want a decent life for themselves, trapped between warring, um, warlords, fuck them.

He’s not stupid. He’s a garbage person. Fuck him.

Yeah. You just know that he didn’t abuse people in his power. No chance.

If only we could dye his skin black and alter his identity papers to make him officially African-American. Then he can discover what suffering is like.

You know what? How about we oppress racist psychopath cops until a dispassionate observer could feel sorry for them? The NYT ran a story about a woman imprisoned for her mother’s murder by a corrupt district attorney, the most reprimanded district attorney in America. Will she suffer for her illegalities? No,…