Is bacteriophage φX174 DNA a message from an extraterrestrial intelligence?
Abstract
We speculate that a simple biological system carrying a message and capable of self-replication in suitable environments may be one possible channel for interstellar communication. A preliminary experiment was performed to test the hypothesis that phage φC174 DNA carries a message from an advanced civilization.
- Publication:
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Icarus
- Pub Date:
- April 1979
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0019-1035(79)90094-0
- Bibcode:
- 1979Icar...38..148Y
- Keywords:
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- Bacteriophages;
- Deoxyribonucleic Acid;
- Exobiology;
- Extraterrestrial Intelligence;
- Interstellar Communication;
- Decoding;
- Escherichia;
- Genetic Code;
- Nucleotides;
- EXPERIMENTS;
- EXTRATERRESTRIAL RESOURCES;
- ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE TRANSMISSION;
- ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION;
- MICROORGANISM;
- INTERSTELLAR COMMUNICATION