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		siculars on Nov 26, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hong Kong Team Stores 90GB of Data In 1g of Bacter... Everything degrades but I am particularly concerned re. the rate of decay of anything organic. What's the MTBF?

sliverstorm on Nov 26, 2010 [–]

You sure MTBF is still the appropriate term? Perhaps it's time to coin a new one. How about MTBE- MTB Evolution.

RyanMcGreal on Nov 26, 2010 | [–]

Or at least Mean Time Before Mutation (MTBM). I'm curious to see the checksum protein they deploy.

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