/sci/ - Science & Math

>>11365370
do viruses count? if not why not and if so yeah we have in real time.

>>8976984
Even so they are far to adaptable and have far to many genetic formulae.
According to the games lore the flood first made contact with ancient humanity and another fairly advanced civilization and ate them both before getting their galactic jimmies rustled via the halo array.
Apparently they won against the two factions because of their ability to form a central nervous system (in the form of a gravemind) which is 'hyperintellegant'.
Allong with having the code for a gravemind they also have numerous others (I think about 5 distinct ones, however they've been shown to have way more, in the thousands)
The only way this would be feasible is if they had instructions for instructions for instructions for their finalform. Eg: hypercondensed genome.
But then they wouldent be able to grow and infect as fast as they do.

I wanna split a string looking like s = 'stuff^morestuff^hello' at the ^ but s.split('^') doesn't work, am I retarded?

Inb4 "why pythong?!" or "ur retarded".