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NASA’s Genesis crashes

With this and other NASA tragedies and mishaps, I can’t help but think of Dan Brown’s Deception Point! (I thought the book was pretty good.)

gattaca and dna chemical partners

ok, maybe everyone knows this, but i’m posting before looking it up… i came across an article in the april 2002 issue of discover entitled bad genes, good drugs that got me thinking. in the article, i learned that DNA has a biochemical code of A’s, C’s, G’s and T’s. the first thing that popped into my head from a illistration of a jumble of A’s, C’s, G’s and T’s was “GATTACA” - yes, i’m a big fan of the movie. so is that where the name came from… i’ll have to check!

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