Breath of the Wild's Sheikah Magic Water is REAL!?

One of the first things you encounter in The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild, is this
glowing blue magic water that Link is resurrected from. And just after getting out, it turns
out that this same water can be used to transfer data to a magic computer! What is magic water?
Well, the answer is actually kinda simple, yet very complex. It exists in some form today,
and will play a major part in our future.
At first I though nothing odd of this water, link being brought back to life or healed
within it just made sense to me. You see similar healing water chambers in all kinds of other
sci-fi media, like Star Wars. But when you get your sheikah slate and it says “Distilling
information” that took me by surprise. Distilling? What? Like how you can distill water? What
does that even mean in this case? And then I saw it drip water onto the tablet and everything
made sense immediately!
Now obviously water in and of itself cannot transfer computer data. But what about distilled
water? What does that mean?
Distilled water is water that has had many of its impurities removed through distillation.
Distillation involves boiling the water and then condensing the steam of boiled water
into a clean container. Doing this makes it very clean. Pure water. More pure than just
passing it through a filter could do.
But making the water purely distilled, still wont allow it to transfer bits and bytes of
data! There is still no way for this to work! Unless… we take water out of the equation.
Perhaps this isnt actually water, at least not completely pure water. After all you can
distill almost any liquid, this doesn't necessarily have to be water. It could very well be a
stream of saliva, hehe gross, like that beast (also record Dragon) on top of saliva island
in Shantae and the pirates curse, all the water on the island is revealed to be its
saliva. Haha, its ridiculous, too ridiculous for a zelda game right? ...right?...
Wrong. Any game series with Tingle in it cant get any weirder! While not saliva per-sey,
this magical blue water may have a biological element to it. It transfers data via DNA.
DNA data transfer has been a thing since the dawn on life, sex is literally transferring
one organism's DNA to another. But more recently than the dawn of life, scientists built a
computer that could actually read and write in DNA. After all, computers read code, nothing
but 1s and 0s, and DNA consists of 4 chemicals, labeled G C A T. So all they had to do is
tell the computer to translate those 4 chemicals into either 1s or 0s, and then build the machine
to write its own DNA, and read it back.
They saved a photo of their lab, and some word documents containing important speeches,
such as I have a dream onto the DNA. and sure enough, they were able to transfer it to another
machine, and that machine read it back perfectly. And the great thing about DNA storage is that
it is significantly more challenging to corrupt any of the data. You can scratch a disk, or
damage a solid state drive, but DNA is microscopic and dense, and its not changing very easily,
and even if it did, because DNA’s code is saved in a very specific way that never changes,
even if a part of it gets damaged, the computer can easily figure out what that part was base
on whats around it.
Also. DNA
storage is insanely dense. The amount of DNA stored in the average adult males pinkie finger
alone, could contain the internet. Yes. the internet. The devices we use to store data
on our computers currently can only get so dense before it becomes a physical impossibility
to become any denser with the same methods. And DNA data solves that issue, by being exponentially
more dense than current hard drive technology could ever be.
The Sheikah in Breath of the wild already have more advanced technology than our own
in SOME regards. (show lasers for example). So DNA data storage for computers isnt so
crazy for them. It’s stored in a water like substance, billions of copies of the same
data, all floating around in these rocks. And when the time comes, it gets distilled.
Purified. The DNA is organized into the droplet at the bottom of the rock, and transferred
to the sheikah slate. ALMOST like magic.
Plus, being the masters of DNA that they apparently are, they can use a similar liquid to submerge
a recently killed Link, and revive him. The DNA in the water reading his own DNA and perfectly
rebuilding him. An admittedly very slow and very very Sci-Fi process, but not impossible
for a fantasy world of course.
So what do you think? Sound plausible? Distilled DNA data transfer? Do you have any theories
of your own on any awesome fantasy things that may able to be explained with science?
Let me know down below. And never stop using your gnoggin.

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