Coronavirus cure crowdsourcing?

by levleontiev on 3/4/2020, 8:50:45 PM with 6 comments
I have a silly question to discuss: is there any chance that a Coronavirus vaccine can be found by brute force?

The world already has a pretty good infrastructure (Seti@Home) for that, and media all over the world already informed everyone about the threat. Participation in saving the world from the plague could be a very good motivation to join distributed calculations.

Or it makes no sense at all to try the brute force?

  • by bch132 on 3/4/2020, 8:58:20 PM

    Oh damn, I thought the question was whether the coronavirus could cure crowdsourcing...

  • by mtmail on 3/4/2020, 10:03:17 PM

    Have a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=fold.it

  • by dt123 on 3/6/2020, 2:14:25 PM

    both folding@home and rosetta@home are doing this kind of thing :)