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Biohacker Injects Himself With Religious Texts Converted to DNA

posted by mrpg on Friday December 21 2018, @11:33AM   Printer-friendly
from the florida-man,-zat-you? dept.

takyon writes:

High School Student Injects The Book Of Genesis Into His Body

A student has injected himself with the Book of Genesis and the surah Ar-Ra'd (part of the Qur'an) because he "wondered whether it would be possible".

Adrien Locatelli, a high school student in Grenoble, France, decided to inject himself with several religious texts.

"Recent studies have reported that it is possible to convert any type of information into DNA for the purpose of storage," he wrote, publishing his initial results on the Open Science Framework.

"Since it is possible to convert digital information into DNA, I wondered whether it would be possible to convert a religious text into DNA and to inject it in a living being."

Seems like a good origin story for a religious superhero.

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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday December 21 2018, @01:00PM (5 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday December 21 2018, @01:00PM (#777173) Journal

    This really sounds like the crap that druggies do. "Look, Ma, I have no idea what this shit will do to my system, but I'm going to inject it to see!" Yeah, sure, maybe, just maybe, if he were to inject "The Word of God" into his system, maybe it would do something. But, how does he know he's reading the right code? Given that he's using the "Language of God", why does he presume that God will be pleased, or even tolerant?

    "Archangel Michael, that fucking mortal is trying to become like me. Grab his ass, and take him straight to hell. No, don't kill him first. Take him straight to the lake of fire, and throw him in!"

    Alright, suppose that he is using the correct language. Suppose that God doesn't freak on his ass. What about errors? The entire Bible? He doesn't make one single error? What if, instead of angel wings, he sprouts condor wings, that sprout out of his ass?

    Just retarded. As I say, equally retarded with the drug addled fools who try injecting Drano to get high.

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday December 21 2018, @02:28PM (4 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Friday December 21 2018, @02:28PM (#777200) Homepage Journal

    More importantly, did he use the same character encoding as his deity did? Sounds like the kind of idiot who'd use utf-8 so he could put emojis in.

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