X-Message-Number: 483 From att!compuserve.com!73647.1215 Wed Oct 2 00:24:41 EDT 1991 Date: 01 Oct 91 01:40:07 EDT From: Thomas Donaldson <> Subject: Re: cryonics: #471 - #472 Bacteriorhodopsin has been under investigation for various computer uses for at least 10 years. It responds to light very quickly (though offhand I don't remember the figure. I think its well in the nanosecond range). One thing which has not been done, so far as I know, is to try to understand its structure well enough to make other molecules, perhaps not based on normal biological materials --- they could have added use. Thomas Donaldson Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=483