AO SETI @home team

[Bluestrike_2]

I used to have Folding@Home running. It just took over my CPU(s). So, I got rid of it. Shame though. It was evil....

Besides, maybe the aliens could help us

[Drizit]

as much as the folding research seems important, I've already setup SETI, and I don't really care about the folding cause, I've had relatives go form Alzheimer's but it just doesn't interest me that much, perhaps because i don't see a cure in the future anyway. not the way the rest of the planet is going, and perhaps aliens can teach us to smarten up and not kill off our planet.

[magking1971]

Yah we need to beat the Art Bell team!
BPS is my other account.

[Potatoboy]

as much as the folding research seems important, I've already setup SETI, and I don't really care about the folding cause, I've had relatives go form Alzheimer's but it just doesn't interest me that much, perhaps because i don't see a cure in the future anyway. not the way the rest of the planet is going, and perhaps aliens can teach us to smarten up and not kill off our planet.

Am I the only person that read this as "Let's not do anything useful, maybe the aliens will come and save us all!"

Many, Many scholars agree that the SETI program is *not* how any inteligent life will find us. The signals recieved will be dated Millions of years in the past, and will likely be of little use other than knowing someone else is out there.

With the folding at home program, one can make a difference in doing work that will directly help mankind.

The RC5 challenge at distributed.net is proving again and again the viability of long term distributed computing tasks, which only helps other tasks for meaningful purposes. The RC5 challenge is also helping to extrapolate new long term encryption schemes by finding flaws in past systems.

I ran SETI for a few days, and thought about it. Really, no one is expecting anything useful to come of it; it's just a waste of cycles.

[Drizit]

no potato i don't think the aliens will come down and save us, however i also feel that the work on folding won't help man kind in any viable way, it may help a few verry rich people but by the time it's in any usefull state they will be the only ones to afford it. you and I just won't get to see it. for instance i have a friend who works for a drug research company, They have devloped a vaceen (note i say vacseen not cure) for AIDS, however the cost to produce it is so high that even though it would be a great boon to places like africa where 80% of the population is infected, they won't produce it, i might be avalible to the few people who can afford $12,000 per dose but that's it. see now why i don't hold much hope for the folding program?