Well here I am estudian de espanol trying to figure out how to wrap my brain around a word salad that I don’t know how to eat, when I realize I’m bored.  That just isn’t good for studying Spanish so…

I came up with an idea regarding genetics, our history, and the evolution of life as we know it.  I was thinking, “What is the pinnacle of our DNA”?  “What if”, all life that shared our particular form of chromosomal DNA (carbon based life forms), were headed in the same direction?  By that I mean, what if “our” carbon based life form no matter where it starts on the evolutionary ladder would eventually, given enough time and a pleasant place to live, become the same life form. 

If you were to take a strand of our DNA, dissect it, unlock every secret it possesses, and build the exact perfect specimen of it, what would it look like as a life form?  Would it be 8 billion base pairs long, or closer to 6.5 billion base pairs?  Are we almost there?  Or are we only a tenth of the way?

Let’s say there is this maxed out carbon based life form out there in the universe.  There is no way to conveniently travel the universe due to the light speed barrier problem.  But there is still the conscious imperative to extend the survivability of the life form that is that perfect form of DNA in all its glory.  Let’s say they know that no matter how much of what section of that DNA that lands in a half way nutritious soup of anything will cause it to begin to organize itself towards that final assembly, which is the pinnacle of itself.  Now all they have to do is shoot trillions of armored bits of genetic material at anything that looks even remotely sustaining.  Mold spores if you will or even "virii" on a smaller scale.  Life is already demonstrating the technique.  What if all these seeming myriads of life forms are nothing more than a hit and miss rush to actual completion of the pinnacle of DNA existence. 

“What” gets to the new world does not matter so much as whether “it” does or not.  There are obviously a nearly unlimited number of permutations possible when you consider the shear volume of information stored in such a small package.  What if that package is not even close to full grown yet?  What if its perfect state is twice its current size?  What would that being look like?  How would it perceive the universe? 

I am imagining that at a certain stage in the development of the being DNA, it automatically (instinctually if you want) will begin to deploy itself in the most effective fashion much as mold does.  It will spread itself to the cosmos with maximum efficiently and without malice or concern. 

That’s all folks, thanks for reading this.  I should get back to my homework.  Peace out.

Nathan Wandrey