Alicorn comments on Less Wrong: Open Thread, September 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Alicorn 27 September 2010 03:43:16PM 5 points [-]

Imagine that, instead of communicating by electromagnetic or sound waves, we encoded information into the DNA of custom microbes and exchanged them.

Like the descoladores!

Comment author: khafra 27 September 2010 04:19:06PM 0 points [-]

Hah, I didn't realize someone else had already imagined it. Generalizing from multiple, independently-generated fictional evidence?