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Can Protein Folding be Used to “Code” All-New Physical Growth?

Dialogue between me and my friend Brian (expect more from Brian in the near future):

Brian wants dragonfly wings because:

it would achieve the closest thing to unassisted flight that I would imagine is feasible; it might be kinda noisy I guess, big bug wings…. but that is besides the point. I could fly backwards, forwards, spin, … basically move the same as a hummingbird.

Wouldn’t you just want hummingbird wings?
“No I would rather be able to put a shell over them. Maybe i would have ladybug wings.”

Wouldn’t you rather have some bad ass beetle-type wings? Ladybugs are kinda girly.

“No, they are called [lady bugs] but they are these vicious hunter-killers of [aphids]. Its a good thing bugs are small…think [starship troopers], but that is an entirely different topic.”

So… how do you propose you would acquire these new dragonfly wings?

(read on to explore the possibilities of distributed supercomputerProtein Folding)

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