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Asked by gabby1996 to Ellie on 26 Jun 2012.
Question: In your opinion which wins - a supercomputer or a superbug? why?
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Eleanor Turpin answered on 26 Jun 2012:
Hi gabby1996,
The supercomputer definitely wins! Superbugs are horrid bacteria that make people very ill, but supercomputers are fantastic. Apart from helping me to cure superbugs they are used to design planes, buildings and cars, power most of the finicial transactions in the the developed world and use the same type of technology as an xbox or playstation.
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Philip commented on :
How about a supercomputer in a superbug!
John commented on :
How about using lots of superbugs AS a giant supercomputer!?
Ellie commented on :
You can use DNA for computing – instead of using a microchip to do calculations you encode the problem in DNA. And I think bacteria make all the DNA for you. But it’s probably best not to use superbugs for this because we want to reduce the amount of antibiotic resistance germs in the world!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_computing