That was...interesting...in the sense of almost making sense. I've just enough of a smattering of both information theory and biology to sense meaning behind the impenetrable jargon and equations, or at least the possibility of meaning.

So ljk, what did you see in this paper to make it worth posting? Can you translate? Is he actually talking about transmission of entire living systems (i.e. a planet full o'life?) across the galaxy and outlining some compression methods based on redundancy and elimination of "noise" DNA segments? And having transmitted this information, we do what with it? Did I miss that part? Who's on first?