EVE Online players have saved scientists around the world over 330 years of COVID-19 research thanks to their efforts in the in-game Project Discovery minigame.
“The alternative for scientists is to look everywhere,” Brinkman said in regards to how players are analyzing 40 dimensions of data on a 2D plane that speeds up data research greatly. “Scientists can’t do that, though, because to analyze just one sample, it takes an hour… but we have an infinite amount of monkeys, all banging away on typewriters.”
Gamers bodied