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Thread ID: 54681 2005-02-19 04:42:00 SETI@Home Dannz (1668) PC World Chat
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326426 2005-02-20 05:20:00 By running the Folding@Home client on your computer, your spare processing cycles can help find a cure for these diseases!
And $1000s of dollars in electricity bills if you have your processor at full load all the time and use it for some years. Still a noble cause if you've got the money. :p

SETI especially is a waste of time. If they do find something with it, do you ever think they'll relay that information back to you? No, it will get covered up and kept in secret so you'll never get any benefits from your excess electricity usage in your lifetime.

IMO if the US government wants to find aliens so bad can use their big supercomputer that they use for cracking encryption & reading everyone's email and use it to analyse the SETI data instead.
E|im (87)
326427 2005-02-20 05:35:00 the question is, have they actually found something and does it work?? or is it just a scheme run by power companies so they gather more funds because you leave your pc on 24/4??....... the plot thickens...... Prescott (11)
326428 2005-02-22 02:49:00 Imagine the credit you would get if you analysed data that had a message from aliens in it
:D
Dannz (1668)
326429 2005-02-22 03:50:00 folding.stanford.edu doesn't want to open In Firefox - on my PC anyway. Works OK in IE. Tony (4941)
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