SETI asks for help

I used to be part of the project from 2001-2007. It was kind of mesmerizing and entertaining watching the screen as my computer churned through the packets of info. Then I started having too many problems with the program and my machine so I finally just walked away from it. I briefly looked at it again a few years later and saw they had a "boatload" of data users have sent back that hasn't been followed up on at their end. They simply had too much volume received over the years. Has the backlog gotten any better?

 

I used SETI@Home on my Macs, but when I got a PC, Folding@Home was better supported. Folding@Home helps understand Proteins and treatments for illnesses involving mis-folding by Proteins. It runs on Windows, Linux and MacOS, with versions for the Chrome Browser and some Android devices.

Folding@home – Fighting disease with a world wide distributed super computer.

Just like SETI@Home is a project at Berkeley, Folding@Home is a Stanford project.

My strong advice is to do the express install, and watch for firewall questions, and allow them. It needs to contact the University.

 

i have to run this by our local et expert @RobH before committing

 

We notably lack an overview of this and other appeals to un-reimbursed public computational power. All (probably) are motivated by good goals. Some successes are occasionally reported.

Seti@home says they have >3 teraFLOpS. Folding@home does not make their public-computation status easy to know. Several others also exist.

Making no judgement about value of various stated goals. I only wonder about who's got the FLOpS. How many public computational FLOpS are there? With that known, could move on to hashing to claim (mine) cryptocurrencies. With that known we could construct a very interesting pie chart of global public computational resources.

What is it? (entire pie) What slice is donated to gratis public-computational projects as here? What fraction is monetized for cryptocurrency mining?

Everything else is what we do with these appliances we've purchased. Very few decades ago, none of this existed. The world has recently vastly changed.

 

SETI was a good idea, but I've grown tired of the search. It has turned into a lifelong career for Seth, so I understand why he wants to continue. It is clear that the ETs don't use radio like we do or we would have heard something already.

If I were in charge of research budgets, I'd follow the reports of Charles Hall about how the Tall White vessels operate. Miles of fiber optic coils energized by a zoo of subatomic particles. Start with ordinary photons of various energy levels. See the APPENDIX A of "Millennial Hospitality IV: After Hours". One of the reports is that a deep space craft was damaged while traveling at superluminal speed, and they communicated their problem at an even higher speed.

 

Folding@home stats report
Is the most clear

Folding@home stats report

List of distributed computing projects - Wikipedia

 

Folding floats a lot of points then eh?

 

Folding@Home offers a better future if it succeeds, and it has succeeded some. Other projects offer more pure science, more knowledge, less results.

On the other hand, it supports 'big pharma'. It is mostly looking for treatments, not cures.

 

prevention would be even better, but we'll take what we can get

 

Fixing a protein would likely require a genetic cure.

 

Yes, they focus on treatments, not cures.

Papers & Results – Folding@home

 

If the underlying cause is in the patient's genetic code, treatment might be the only option.

 

Look into "Ayurveda" if the desire is to progress from treatment to cures. Actually, however, there is no such thing as cure, since the physical body is made of elements that will in due course of time disintegrate eventually. Ayurveda provides good guidelines to understand the different body types and how to live in harmony with the natural cycles of day/night, seasons etc with the aim to live a relatively pain free life as long as the machine (bag of bones) endures.

Hare Krishna!

 

There are several animals that do not degrade with age. Lobsters just grow larger until they're eaten. Goggle "immortal animals", for example Immortal Animals: 7 Animals That Live Forever | Reader's Digest

 

I started crunching for SETI on May 20, 1999. (way before BOINC) For quite a while, I was in the top 0.001% of the world in returned results and had approx 9,000 cores on several platforms doing work. I did my bit for little green men and then some including Folding and others. It was fun and the team competitions were fun. I still have an active account. Alas resources were needed elsewhere.