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Re:A Room-Temperature Superconductor? New Developments by weard_beard on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @01:39PM (#36959480)
Maybe you can help here, I was completely lost in terms of the Iris (Russian Cat Girl) mention of, "engineering conductivity pili of bacteria into the superconductors" is this a reference to nano scale bio engineering or a means of reliable replication of the superconducting structure itself?

Or is this just nonsense? https://twitter.com/iris_IGB/status/1685322871306928128

Re:A Room-Temperature Superconductor? New Developments by feoren on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @06:29PM (#36964110)
Sounds like nonsense. You can't do atomic-level engineering with bacteria, they are 9 orders of magnitude too big. We're talking about being able to place copper atoms at specific points on a crystal structure, while avoiding placing them at points they'd rather be at. Bacteria? Give me a break.