In the science-fiction novel "The Three-Body Problem", all the "scientist" characters seem to think they can't draw inferences about a system unless they can characterize how every part of the system works. The only character who deduces anything is a cop.
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But there is some order to that crufty code :)
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"it made sense at the time"
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this, but the code has been running on the same computer for the whole time, and 4 billion years worth of accumulated dust and roaches is now a critical component of the system
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That assumes this teen will reproduce.
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the 50s and early 60s were more the heyday of the physics interlopers, the Phage Group and whatnot, basically invented molecular biology by the 70s molecular biology had already won the field, pretty much everybody was doing it
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