{"id":12573,"date":"2012-10-11T03:00:44","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T08:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=12573"},"modified":"2012-10-11T03:00:44","modified_gmt":"2012-10-11T08:00:44","slug":"im-with-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/12573","title":{"rendered":"I&#039;m With Stupid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2012\/10\/jurassic-park-dna-half-life\/\">Jurassic Park Impossible Because of Stupid Laws of Physics<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It might be odd to think of DNA having a half-life, as it\u2019s usually associated with radioactive material \u2014 but as it measures the time taken for half of something to decay, it makes sense to talk about old samples of DNA in the same way. For example, uranium-235, the fissile material that can be used in nuclear power plants (and nuclear weapons), has a half-life of 703.8 million years. DNA, by comparison, doesn\u2019t fare so well \u2014 according to a study of 158 samples of moa bones between 500 and 6,000 years old, DNA appears to have a half-life of around 521 years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Actually, anything driven by a simple probability is going to behave this way, where the rate of loss depends on how much you have.  There are biological half-lives for some substances you ingest, which tells you how long it will take to metabolize or excrete that substance.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jurassic Park Impossible Because of Stupid Laws of Physics It might be odd to think of DNA having a half-life, as it\u2019s usually associated with radioactive material \u2014 but as it measures the time taken for half of something to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/12573\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-science","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}