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Coronavirus cure crowdsourcing?

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?

( 6 comments | 4 points | on HN )
Re:Coronavirus cure crowdsourcing? by bch132 on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @03:58PM (#22488010)
Oh damn, I thought the question was whether the coronavirus could cure crowdsourcing...
Re:Coronavirus cure crowdsourcing? by levleontiev on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @03:59PM (#22488026)
Somehow yes, btw. Success will be a great success story of crowdsourcing.
Re:Coronavirus cure crowdsourcing? by bch132 on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @04:26PM (#22488329)
Solid point
Re:Coronavirus cure crowdsourcing? by mtmail on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @05:03PM (#22488645)
Re:Coronavirus cure crowdsourcing? by levleontiev on Thursday March 05, 2020 @05:55AM (#22492529)
Have seen it right after the posting ;)
Re:Coronavirus cure crowdsourcing? by dt123 on Friday March 06, 2020 @09:14AM (#22503690)
both folding@home and rosetta@home are doing this kind of thing :)