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by TravisCooper 879 days ago
Impossible. DNA degrades very quickly. Half-life is ~520 years, and you'd assume any "storage" done quickly and ad-hoc (as these things always are) would not be ideal conditions to maximize this number.
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That's the typical half life. The record is ~2 million years, obviously just tiny fragments

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/unlocking-the-oldest-kn...

> That's the typical half life. The record is ~2 million years, obviously just tiny fragments

Half-life of DNA is the time it takes for half the bonds to snap. Far longer than 2 million years is achievable based on that half-life, at least under ideal conditions.