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| coppice:
--- Quote from: paulca on May 04, 2020, 12:46:12 pm ---If bats didn't have a weird immune systems they probably wouldn't exist as they tend to hang in dense groups in the order of millions. --- End quote --- Yeah, we need to get them to engage in social distancing. :) |
| NiHaoMike:
--- Quote from: james_s on May 03, 2020, 10:58:32 pm ---The biggest issue I've seen is with coworkers who live in apartments that have WiFi, there's no way around the fact that the air has a finite amount of bandwidth. Get that many people with that many devices all using it at once and things are gonna slow down. --- End quote --- The bandwidth of the air is virtually infinite, but the hardware that uses it can only work with a tiny fraction of that. Not that better hardware will help by very much when demand will quickly expand to make up for it. What will help is use of millimeter wave and infrared, which are heavily attenuated between rooms and therefore allow much more frequency reuse. I wonder how many have figured out that going wired significantly boosts performance. |
| 0db:
--- Quote from: thinkfat on May 04, 2020, 12:36:03 pm ---If I'm not mistaken this is what "The Lab" in Wuhan has been doing research on ;) --- End quote --- Chineses are not the only bio-engineers on this :D |
| 0db:
--- Quote from: paulca on May 04, 2020, 12:46:12 pm ---If bats didn't have a weird immune systems they probably wouldn't exist as they tend to hang in dense groups in the order of millions. --- End quote --- It seems a consequence of their ability to fly. They are heavy, and each cell must produce a lot of energy to sustain the flying. This means a lot of stress at the cellular level, which implies a lot of DNA damages, and it's precisely here where nature gave them the trick. And as a consequence of this mechanism, they also become immune to viruses. A virus to reproduce itself needs to use the DNA of a target, but the DNA in bats gets always repaired in a smart way. The good news is that these researching activities get more interest and attention, and it may be also interesting to understand how bats are immune to develop cancer. Maybe the world after COVID/19 will put more funds into this research. |
| paulca:
--- Quote from: 0db on May 04, 2020, 01:09:43 pm ---Maybe the world after COVID/19 will put more funds into this research. --- End quote --- What and let the rich take a hit on their bonuses? Unlikely. |
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