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Originally posted by Jak
You ask, "what could the point of that possibly be?" Advances in computing means more power to all forms of research that uses technology. Cancer and AIDS research falls right in there with that group (heavily even), and the better their technological capabilities, the more work can be done in those fields.
Sorry I don't mean to jump on you, but science is worth more thought than what we generally give it. Don't try so hard to diminish it if you don't truly understand it.
Jak
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I would even go so far as to say that not only is pushing the limits of computer power critical to science, but that it is quite particularly important to genetics research, the field which has fostered the recent discoveries about RNAi that may allow us to overwrite corrupt/overreplicating or viral dna, which is exactly what you're bitching about. Furthermore, the behavior of dna in the process of evolution fits a chaos pattern, as seen in pi- an series of possible values whose only discernable pattern is that they never appear to attain a repeat pattern. The pursuit of pi is the pursuit of the infinitude of recombinatory possibilities of natural chaos. It's intuitive to say that there exists an infinite set of possible sentences. It's quite another thing to find an instance of it in nature, or to build a machine that can comprehend every sentence ever spoken via the development of life on earth.
Just look at a zooming fractal. Zooooooooooooooooom, down you go, but it just keeps spawning new shit. Wow. |
