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Re:India’s second wave of Covid-19 feels nothing like its first by michaelmrose on Saturday May 01, 2021 @04:43AM (#27004514)
A virus that doubled in a second would be perceived as a swarm that dissolved people before our eyes as it quickly ate the biomass of the planet. Think 2^86400 in one day. Fortunately it would need faster than light travel to keep replicating at that rate for long.
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Re:India’s second wave of Covid-19 feels nothing like its first by jamiek88 on Saturday May 01, 2021 @03:50PM (#27009240)
Why would it need ftl?

Aren’t all the doublings local?

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Re:India’s second wave of Covid-19 feels nothing like its first by lacker on Saturday May 01, 2021 @10:48PM (#27011969)
Anything that keeps replicating exponentially will eventually have its growth limited by the speed of light, because the amount of space you can reach while traveling at a bounded speed only grows polynomially fast. Because the formula for the volume of a sphere is cubic. You’ll run out of space and the things in the inside of the ball won’t have room to replicate.
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Re:India’s second wave of Covid-19 feels nothing like its first by michaelmrose on Saturday May 01, 2021 @04:13PM (#27009402)
I'm assuming it would consume all local mass shortly.
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