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Won't work. In the last sentence they basically admit wishful thinking. Can we quit voting up faith-based science articles? “to use a combination of simulation
by davidj 16y ago
Won't work. In the last sentence they basically admit wishful thinking. Can we quit voting up faith-based science articles?
“to use a combination of simulation, chemical intuition, and databases of tens of millions of known molecules to look for other candidates that have structural similarities and might exhibit the same behavior.”
- tbrownaw 16y ago"We learned something interesting, and now we're going to go find out if its easily practically useful or currently just a curiosity." I don't see how that's "wishful thinking" or "faith-based" or anything like that.
- zshahan 16y agoi think the important point, as discussed in the comments at the top, is that they had a genuine knowledge breakthrough. for those of us wishing for immediate technological change, it may not sound like a lot, but for the scientists who have been working on this issue for decades, it is huge. & yes, we don't know yet, but hopefully it will lead to something more soon.