StarGate question
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StarGate question
The symobiates have genetic memory. Is it possible to read their DNA and get the info? After all we are starting to experiment with DNA based information systems.
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There would be hundreds of thousands of years of information in there, potentially. I would imagine it being like reading a tape drive though, it would take a long time if you don't know where exactly you need to look, otherwise 99% of what you'd find is likely to be the maiming of innocents..
That said I'm not sure the technology has ever been demonstrated in Stargate, they do have demonstrated quantum level computing on their ships which would probably help with the process if an intelligent programme could be written to go through the data automatically.
In universe they are probably better off learning everything from the masters of fuckups (the ancients) as they at least have a searchable database.
That said I'm not sure the technology has ever been demonstrated in Stargate, they do have demonstrated quantum level computing on their ships which would probably help with the process if an intelligent programme could be written to go through the data automatically.
In universe they are probably better off learning everything from the masters of fuckups (the ancients) as they at least have a searchable database.
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The NID/Trust tried it in Ressurection but the only practical way seemed to be to make an unfortunate child with the genetic memory, who was eventually subsumed by the memories of the goa'uld Sekhmet.
To my mind they should have ended that episode by having her become a tok'ra host; it would seem to be the obvious solution to supress/obliterate the Sekhmet personality.
To my mind they should have ended that episode by having her become a tok'ra host; it would seem to be the obvious solution to supress/obliterate the Sekhmet personality.
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Hum considering there is a lot of stuff that we haven't seen doesn't mean much, when you consider scientists last year made DNA based memory.Solauren wrote:Sure. If you had a way to read genetic information, it would just be a matter of cracking the gou'ald genetic memory code.
However, since we haven't seen anything like that in Stargate...
Granted it was only a yeast cells but still if we can do it with our limited tech than the more advanced races should be able to do better.
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The problem is that we don't even fully understand the processes that take place in forming and recalling memories in humans, let alone another species. We have a very good idea of what is happening, but we don't know definitively what is going on. It's one thing to have the genetic code for the memories in front of you, but a single memory could be hundreds or thousands of base pairs long, and trying to decode millions of memories of that sort seems like a exercise in futility.
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Extremely unlikely for humans.
This task probably combines the difficultly of working out how genes express into neural structures (an extremely complex process that we don't really understand in humans, never mind aliens) with the difficultly of working out how neural structures code memories (which we also don't understand yet even in normal humans).
However it's completely plausible with sufficiently advanced biological knowledge and copious computing power. The Ancients and the Asurans could probably have done it, though it may have taken them a few years of research.
This task probably combines the difficultly of working out how genes express into neural structures (an extremely complex process that we don't really understand in humans, never mind aliens) with the difficultly of working out how neural structures code memories (which we also don't understand yet even in normal humans).
However it's completely plausible with sufficiently advanced biological knowledge and copious computing power. The Ancients and the Asurans could probably have done it, though it may have taken them a few years of research.