Folding@Home

[Bunk]

This seems like a good place to reproduce this thread from the Forum Community.

Check out Folding@Home, a distributed computing project (similar to Seti@Home) to help understand protein folding, misfolding and associated diseases.

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[This Guy]

Is this one of those earn income from home things?

I need to reactivate my SETI account. I've moved and reinstalled Windows a couple times since I last did that.

I'm all for any of these type programs that help, or have the potential to help science progress.

My view on SETI is that even if it's bull, if we rule out that possibility (the possibility of picking up alien life via radio waves) then we've made some progress in determining the existence, or lack of, of intelligent alien life. Once we determine if there is or isn't intelligent life in space, we can begin a more serious search for it on earth!

 

[Bunk]

Is this one of those earn income from home things?

This is not, but I do happen to know of a scheme plan to help you make money at home without any effort at all. Just send me $200 in cash and I'll get this information right to you. Send it via UPS or Fedex so I can avoid mail fraud charges because the U.S. mail service doesn't want this valuable information to reach the public.

I need to reactivate my SETI account. I've moved and reinstalled Windows a couple times since I last did that.

I'm all for any of these type programs that help, or have the potential to help science progress.

My view on SETI is that even if it's bull, if we rule out that possibility (the possibility of picking up alien life via radio waves) then we've made some progress in determining the existence, or lack of, of intelligent alien life. Once we determine if there is or isn't intelligent life in space, we can begin a more serious search for it on earth!

Folding@home works much like the SETI program and I'm sure Seti was part of F@H's inspiration. I ran Seti@home for several years and I'll probably reinstall it after the Kepler telescope is operational and we have some specific targets to check out.

You can run both programs if you were so inclined, but I suspect both would be considerably slowed.