3/1: Buddhist fly

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Originally posted by Tony Shepps

Some Buddhist went to the trouble of delivering their message via the common fly. I guess this is an achievement, but I would be much more impressed if they had encoded their message in the fly's DNA, and allowed it to breed with other flies, creating an entire species with the message.

You should know better than that. DNA is constantly being rearranged, mixed with other DNA, and shuffled around. So if the Buddhist encoded a message like "The Dalai Llama's successor has been smuggled out of Tibet", someone later would read "George W. Bush had unnatural sex with the Kwisatz Haderach"