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Folding@Home Reports Success

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the who-wants-to-turn-their-pc-off-anyway dept.

msheppard writes "This Article describes how the folding@home distributed computing project is reporting that they used the data processed on client machines to "predict the folding rate and trajectory of the average molecule." Too bad Seti@Home hasn't had a hit yet."

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  1. Protein!!!! by The+Spelling+Nazi · · Score: 5, Funny
    "predict the folding rate and trajectory of the average molecule"

    That's average protein molecule, you insensitive clod!

  2. Other uses for Distributed Computing by ksplatter · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe next we can use our screensavers to do something cool like search the web for potential stories to post on slashdot.

    1. Re:Other uses for Distributed Computing by Atlantix · · Score: 5, Funny

      Who doesn't love google? Apparently some guy over at SearchKing!

      --A2K

  3. well... by gray+code · · Score: 5, Funny

    Too bad Seti@Home hasn't had a hit yet.

    Well, here's the thing: "we know molecules exist..."

    1. Re:well... by meteau · · Score: 5, Funny

      How do YOUUUU know? I can't see a molecule. It's just another one of those things like "germs" or "atoms" that the man keeps claiming are there. It's all about the health industry and their "oh you're sick with an 'infection' so here is some 'anti-biotics' to kill the big bad invisible 'germs'...whatever...

      --
      -- "You used your dictaphone to post, didn't you?"
  4. Re:And so what if SETI did get a hit? by Atzanteol · · Score: 5, Funny

    *IF* SETI gets a hit, it will be more like:
    Earth: Wow, a spike that may have possibly been generated by an intelligent life form millions of years ago...
    ET: ???

    --
    "Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge"

    - Charles Darwin
  5. SETI: let's hope aliens don't have lawyers by cant_get_a_good_nick · · Score: 5, Funny

    We can only hope that the aliens can actually legally send signals and aren't emcumbered by "Patent 1,345,821,098,836: sending signals encoded in high frequency waves to unknown lifeforms over the aether", and that they think the unknown lifeform receivers have a shot of decoding the signal without getting hit by "IGADCA - Inter-Galactic Age Digital Copyright Act: violations of decrypting the radio encoding".

    Hmm, maybe they have 8 arms and tentacles, and they'll just bite the lawyer's head off when they disagree with them.