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VoilaVoilaWashington t1_isfdaal wrote
Reply to comment by greg0525 in MIT engineers have designed simple microparticles that can collectively generate complex behavior, much the same way that a colony of ants can dig tunnels or collect food by thebelsnickle1991
Not really. The nanoparticles will only perform a single way when combined that way, so it's basically just a human lining up dominos to knock over in an artistic way.
VoilaVoilaWashington t1_isfcbzj wrote
Reply to comment by -domi- in MIT engineers have designed simple microparticles that can collectively generate complex behavior, much the same way that a colony of ants can dig tunnels or collect food by thebelsnickle1991
Profits, uh, finds a way.
VoilaVoilaWashington t1_isus8hm wrote
Reply to comment by Revolutionary-Copy71 in If I am just recovered from a typical cold (5 days long / 2 days off work), am I now more immune to all infections for a period of time, or less? by [deleted]
Basically, the common cold is any mild response to a respiratory infection. There isn't anything about those 4 families of viruses that unite them, unlike "the flu" which is always an influenza virus.
In that regard, SARS-CoV-2 ("covid") is basically just a "common cold" on steroids, which ended up being taken seriously and the variants are being tracked. Outside the effect it has on people, it's not all that unique.
Same as those super-flus. It's all just influenza, just some hit humans way harder than others.