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I read in sci.electronics.design that wrote (in
) about 'Copyright on HP
service manuals', on Sat, 23 Apr 2005:

It's interesting to note how long ago the DNA of dinasours appeared on
earth, in comparison to the half-life of digitally preserved data.

Why stop a dinosaurs, 65 million years ago? The oldest DNA still
identifiable in living creatures ('cyanobacteria') is about 3.8 billion
years old.
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