[ WP ] While first sequencing the human genome , scientists discover a deliberate message in our genetic code

Back in the nineties, the Human Genome Project was in full swing, trying to map out the genetic blueprint, by which all human cells were instructed to exist. 
 
 The usual work was going under by the hard-working professors at the University of California, one of the myriads of bilogical labs tasked with contribution. They were reading up the nucleotide pairs in a given sequence from the DNA using BAC-based sequencing techniques and writing down the order of the nucleotides. The supercomputer tasked with reading the nucleobases of a sperm sample just finished doing one such sequencing work on an October day in 1997. It was some undergrad student, working as a lab assistant hoping for better grades and so that he can put it on his CV, who first noticed the unusual orderdnes of the letters printed on the lab results, while delivering it to his professors. 
 
 Most sequences had a random assortment of A, C, G and T letters, denoting the four basic nucleotides composing the human DNA. This particular sequence, however, was ordered as `` GATTACA'' repeating over and over. 
 
 After checking for errors in the system, it turned out that indeed, the human genome had a sequence of just repeating GATTACA over and over, 3144131 times, than another sequence of 3144131 random letters and then another instance of letters repeating GATTACA 3144131 times. It turned out that if you assign the four letters in alphabetical order to the 1, 2, 3 and 4 numbers 3144131 also translates to GATTACA. 
 
 The professors and students working on the project became celebrities. The undergrad student dropped out of college to pursue a carreer of stand-up comedy after he became famous due to this finding. The Human Genome Project's funding doubled and was hurried, to see if another such anomaly can be found. Computing numbers in pi, Euler's number and other notable transcendental and irrational numbers surged up. Until this date, pi and e is known to the first 2^57885161 decimal and hexadecimal digits because of this, but no such pattern was found. 
 
 Almost every publication, forum, imageboard, tv show, talk show and tabloid began 
 
 pattern-hunting in the sequence of random letters between the two instance of GATTACA repetition. The most popular type was assigning the four letters some other symbol ( mainly numbers ) and seeing what pattern emerges. People found, among others, sentences, prophecies, more numbers, computer code, IP addresses and coordinates, pointing anywhere from Tianjin and the Kola-Peninsula to Alpha Centauri and distant galaxies, constellations. It was also pure coincidence the movie GATTACA hit theatres on the same day this finding was made. Of course, nobody believed the production team saying that they came up with the name way before the undergrad student finding it. The film was dismissed as a cash-in on a fad and did generally bad in the box office, although it did develop a cult following, praising its unique style and its philosophical approach to fate and your control over fate. 
 
 Most academicians and intellectuals agreed on that it is a sign that a higher level of existence created life and put the pattern in it, a god, an alien, or future humans who have mastered time travel or navigation in higher dimensions. The most popular candidate was by far God, although I personally think it's an inherent bias caused by the christian or jewish nurturing the majority of the disputants grew up with. The interpretation of the meaning of the message was a bit more centralised, with two major camps. 
 
 It was either that or that God was sending a warning that we are splashing around in an ocean we think is merely a puddle, that we are ascending to another biologic classification, Homo Deus, with complete knowledge of the universe, life and beyond, creating and knowing things that were not fated to be known and created, all these assumptions were fueled by the fear, fear of the unknown, fear of the future and fear of not knowing future. 
 
 The other side said that God is indicating humanity has gone so far that it is able 
 to put fate into its hands, that we are the sculptors of ourselves, that human ingenuity and hard work was able to replicate existence as a string of four characters, that we are able to understand matter from the unseeable Planck units and microscopic nucleic acid to macroscopic sizes of galaxies so big, we ca n't even fathom it, but still go ahead and try. 
 
 These two camps fought verbally with eachother both in academic and everyday life, between philosophers and between people waiting in line at the grocery store. 
 
 The shitstorm went on for a couple of years, people could n't form a consensus as to what to do with the message, since everyone interpreted the string of random letters differently. It became less and less talked about as time went on. It became a footnote or a fun fact in the biology and history books, overshadowed by the importance of the Human Genome Project, during which it was discovered. It still gets mentioned occasionally, here and there, similarly how the mystery behind the building of the pyramids is mentioned here and there, occasionally. The undergrad student's career went downhill too, after people found out he was not funny. He went back to finish up university, but because of general laziness he was unsuccesful in that endeavour, so he dropped out again and is currently working as a salesclerk in a 24/7, sometimes conversing with frequenters about the good old times and his 15 minutes of fame. 
 
 Thirty years have passed since then, the representative of the God of All Creations got bored of waiting for humanity to find her in the frozen wasteland of the Kola-Peninsula, so she packed up and went home, with a feeling of slight dissappointment. 
 
 ( This is my first ever WP, so sorry if it's not so good )
