I go to the shop, buy one exemplar of the product, and once at home, start the duplication process. With a very simple device and some raw material, I have duplicated the product I bought. It took a few hours to copy the 500 kilobytes (1.7 Megabases) of data that are at the core of the product, and I have six functional copies of the original product. This is probably legal. I produce my own yogurt…
Profites-en tant que ça le reste. Quand on voit que des fermiers en Amérique du nord peuvent être condamnés pour un ensemencement accidentel par des OGM, ça risque de ne pas durer.
Dude, you copied 1.7 megabases per lactobacillus. That’s much more impressive :) #pedanticscientistmode
Yes, but I was to lazy to look up the number of lactobacillus per pot of yogurt…
tsk, just plate them :p
I have no clue what this means… Remember I’m software engineer…
It’s simple:1. make some gelatin or agar pudding, 2. dilute a bit of your yoghurt (write dilution factor down), 3.let grow for a bit, 4.see how many of your bacteria made colonies, 5. profit :D
for the next batch, that is, with an even cooler blog post of course
That implies doing stuff, looking it up on the web, I get 10^8 cells per ml. Yogurt density is 1071 grams per litre. A pot is 180g, so it is 170 ml, so we get 1.7 * 10^10 lactobacillus, so this gives us 28 Terabases.
sure, but that kinda ruins the DIY vibe :(
Somebody pointed out that I’m copying 1.7 megabases per lactobacillus. A yogurt pot is 180 g, Yogurt density is 1071 grams per litre, so we get 170ml. There are around 10^8 cells per ml, so we get 1.7 * 10^10 lactobacillus, which gives us 28 Terabases in total per pot.
I added a comment on the blog with our deep findings…