Seti or folding?

jollyjoice · 04-14-2005, 11:58 AM

I'm running folding but ran seti in the past, personally I think folding is more worth while.
Any oppinions?

stabile007 · 04-14-2005, 01:03 PM

I agree folding is more worthwhile. I would rather let my PC help find a way to cure diseases then try and find alien life. Im sorry but thats just how I feel.

harken · 04-14-2005, 01:07 PM

We should take care of ourselves first to be able to find other kinds of intelligence out there...so I'd say folding too.

rksprst · 04-14-2005, 01:29 PM

I'm doing both
But yea, Folding is definitely more important. I don't think anyone will argue with that

phil.d.g · 04-14-2005, 01:55 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by harken
We should take care of ourselves first to be able to find other kinds of intelligence out there...so I'd say folding too.

agreed

jollyjoice · 04-14-2005, 02:39 PM

ah, but will they be able to help us?

(sorry, getting a bit one sided, come on setiers, we won't flame u... well i won't

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amosf · 04-14-2005, 04:29 PM

Sure, I fold, but if we find aliens then maybe they can cure all the disease

Trouble is it might take them 300,000 years to get here, or even send them an email

rksprst · 04-14-2005, 05:00 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by amosf
Sure, I fold, but if we find aliens then maybe they can cure all the disease

Trouble is it might take them 300,000 years to get here, or even send them an email

what about a wormhole
a spaceship is not the only way to travel

stabile007 · 04-14-2005, 05:03 PM

You watch too much star trek.

AlexV · 04-14-2005, 11:41 PM

I'm running folding, and think that it is clearly more important. I'd rather find a cure for Alzheimer's than find some aliens who may or may not decide to kill or enslave us

scuzzman · 04-15-2005, 12:51 AM

I run both, so I entered the first vote or Seti.

Tux_Phoenix · 04-15-2005, 04:22 AM

Just a question [I dun really want to run either atm (system slows too much need an upgrade then I will)] But with folding won't there eventualy be an end? I guess a better worded question would be does folding only hold the possible sure for one disease or is it a foundation for much much more?

amosf · 04-15-2005, 05:23 AM

Folding may come to an end eventually, but there is a lot to do first and it's about more than just one disease... The results will give us a lot of info on protien building dynamics which will have wide reaching implications.

As for running either. They only use cpu power when it's free, so they have no effect on the machine. I run folding on all sorts of PC's - from a P188 to a athlon 64-2800...

Tux_Phoenix · 04-15-2005, 05:32 AM

Hm it just seemed the Seti made things run slower, of course at teh time I knew a lot less then I do now (almost a year a go now), so I might give it anouther try soon. Thanks for the info.

Micro420 · 04-17-2005, 03:15 AM

I am all for FOLDING@HOME. I'm less concerned with little green martian men that are 100,000 light years away.