Dr. Church said he first considered encoding the novel "Moby Dick, " but then chose to use his own manuscript because its combination of words, pictures and JavaScript code would better showcase DNA's capacity to handle different kinds of information.

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And we also report the astonishing finding that Herman Melville's great novel Moby Dick predicted the war on terrorism as well as having something to say about Tony Blair.

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In 1841, Herman Melville set out to sea from the city on the whaling ship Acushnet, returning after an 18-month voyage to eventually write Moby Dick, the tale of Captain Ahab's obsessive search for the great white whale.

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Mr. Bradbury adapted his stories for TV, co-wrote the script for the 1956 film "Moby Dick" and produced children's books, poetry and text for coffee-table books.

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He wrote the screenplay for John Huston's film Moby Dick and scripts for many TV series, including Suspense, The Alfred Hitchcock Show and The Twilight Zone.

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