29-August-2007, 12:09 AM
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Order of Kilopi
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Colorado Springs
Posts: 12,574
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Quote:
Originally Posted by agingjb
DNA is helical because if you have a moderately rigid polymer, then it's going to be straight or it's going to twist (and a helix is more compact).
The significant thing about DNA is that it is double, and has complementary components. This enables it to hold a sequence, and for that sequence to be replicated.
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Which I find to be a rather neat trick!
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If I set the budget, we'd have Ares and more. Unfortunately, I don't set the budget, and Ares is just too expensive and too far out for us to accomplish our goals within the budget we were given.
If we halt the ISS, all versions of Ares, and transport Orion and Altair aboard D IRECTv3's Jupiter family of Shuttle-Derived Launch Vehicles, we just might make it back to the Moon by 2020.
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