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Either way, nice proof of concept...]]>Dec 24th 2007 12:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/Dec 24th 2007 12:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/Dec 24th 2007 12:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/
Well, at least it's a good first step. Who knows, in the near future our drives might be just a few cubic millimeters large.]]>Dec 24th 2007 12:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/
Yeah, I bet sending billions of bits of data per second through a tiny cable with beams of light sounds impossible too- doesn't mean it doesn't happen.]]>Dec 24th 2007 12:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/Dec 24th 2007 12:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/
You don't really have to type "hello" 300k times, do you? You know how many bytes "hello" takes - 5. So, assuming the average word size was 5 characters, maybe 6 with spaces, that's some 6 x 300k, give or take....]]>Dec 24th 2007 1:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/Dec 24th 2007 1:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/Dec 24th 2007 2:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/Dec 24th 2007 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/Dec 24th 2007 12:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/Dec 24th 2007 12:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/Dec 25th 2007 3:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/Dec 24th 2007 12:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/Dec 24th 2007 1:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/Dec 24th 2007 1:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/Dec 24th 2007 5:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/read this.]]>Dec 24th 2007 12:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/Dec 24th 2007 1:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/Dec 24th 2007 1:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/Dec 24th 2007 1:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/Dec 24th 2007 7:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/Dec 24th 2007 1:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/Dec 24th 2007 1:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/Dec 24th 2007 1:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/Dec 24th 2007 2:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/
Actually, the Old Testament (Jewish Bible) has a lot to do with Jesus. Many prophecies about Jesus were in the Old Testament written approximately 700 years before Christ, which pointed to Jesus coming to Earth. Just a few examples,

Isaiah 9:6-7 (NIV) "For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. 7 Of the increase of his government and peace there will be no end. He will reign on David's throne and over his kingdom, establishing and upholding it with justice and righteousness from that time on and forever".

Isaiah 7:14 (NIV) "Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel".

Isaiah 53:3 (NIV) "He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not".

Isaiah 53:5-7 (NIV) "But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed. 6 We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all. 7 He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth".]]>Dec 24th 2007 2:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/Dec 24th 2007 2:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/
--not debating, but clarifying and earlier statement.]]>Dec 24th 2007 2:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/Although I can refute every one of your quotes, I'll refer to the one that most "strongly" proves the existence of Jesus in Isaiah:
"Isaiah 7:14 (NIV) "Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel".
This is mistranslated, which is what any bible scholar, or anyone who knows a damn about Hebrew will tell you. The word 'alma', which is translated by KJV to "virgin", means nothing of the sort. 'Alma' = young woman. Likewise, the word 'naar' means young male, not child. So the correct translation would be:
"Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The young woman will be with the young male and then give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel". This, of course, has nothing to do with Jesus. Nice try, though.
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(Bush and his bible thumpers comes to mind). ]]>Dec 24th 2007 1:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/Dec 24th 2007 2:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/Dec 24th 2007 1:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/
It sounds like this means we're another step closer to making our current mechanical hard drives extinct and move on to a flash-style drive that's much faster and can hold more data. I like the idea of being able to carry around my entire drive on something only a couple of inches in size - that I can simply plugin to any system and boot up.]]>Dec 24th 2007 1:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/
Of course, this is probably readable with a microscope... not ones and zeros. If they wanted to encode digital information, they could probably get an easy 8 to 1 ratio of digital information to analog characters... that would increase capacity to 1.6 GB per square inch, which isn't too shabby (but still less than a Blu-ray or HD-DVD, and far less than modern hard drives and holographic drives).]]>Dec 24th 2007 2:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/
Better... but still no read/write.]]>Dec 24th 2007 2:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/Dec 24th 2007 1:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/Dec 24th 2007 1:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/
p->q (if p then q)
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p->s must be true]]>Dec 24th 2007 2:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/Dec 24th 2007 2:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/Dec 24th 2007 2:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/Dec 24th 2007 2:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/Dec 24th 2007 2:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/Dec 24th 2007 2:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/Dec 24th 2007 11:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/Dec 24th 2007 2:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/Dec 24th 2007 2:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/Dec 24th 2007 10:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/Dec 24th 2007 2:47AM