Coronavirus cure crowdsourcing?

[levleontiev]

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?

[bch132]

Oh damn, I thought the question was whether the coronavirus could cure crowdsourcing...

[levleontiev]

Somehow yes, btw. Success will be a great success story of crowdsourcing.

[bch132]

Solid point

[mtmail]

Have a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=fold.it

[levleontiev]

Have seen it right after the posting ;)

[dt123]

both folding@home and rosetta@home are doing this kind of thing :)