

This doesn’t make sense to me. You’re saying that if you had a 2002 computer to work with today, it’d be impossible to make a device that plugs into the USB port, can be read by the computer, and can store many gigabytes?
I mean, surely you can put a little computer in the device that emulates exactly what the 2002 computer expects.

Sure:
Scientists FINALLY figured it out! The numbers of ancestors that all life came from is the SMALLEST number! LESS than 4. And the AGE of this ancestor is so old that the only human that can comprehend it is ISAAC EINSTEIN!!
But anyway, reading the article…looks like this is the meat of it:
The study: The nature of the last universal common ancestor and its impact on the early Earth system, published 2024.