computer programme to cure cancer!!!

superscaper

Smirch_This wrote: »

Seti@Home is an example. It's found SFA so far but the astronomers have found more stuff by looking at spectral emissions and classifying star systems and planets to find stuff that could maintain life rather than listening out just in case.

In the latest PhysicsWorld magazine they have an article talking about looking for extraterrestrial intelligence may be better by looking for the existence of Dyson spheres which makes the whole SETI project so far a waste of time, because they're only looking for signals and actually if there were Dyson spheres, they in themselves would actually prevent the kinds of signals SETI are looking for actually being emitted.

Bit off topic but I think the sentiment is the same, it may be possible to get some successes from grid computing but I think the problems chosen for that task probably need to be chosen very very carefully and I doubt anything grand would be achieved from them. Certainly not to "cure cancer" because I think that requires new technologies and innovation and whole systems thinking rather simply tackling calculations of folding of single proteins. And things that do need "brute force" computation is probably going to be better achieved in the future with quantum computing where a single "computer" would completely blow away even turning the universe into a computer (in a traditional sense as I described earlier).

Smirch_This

Dyson spheres are logical and that but I reckon if they had the technology to get the components out there on that scale, then they wouldn't need them because they'd have something better and more compact. Plus you have to be about as advanced as you can be to construct such things and I reckon the universe hasn't been around long enough for that.

I'm an anti-physicist

PROLIANT

Glad to see science is prevailing over stupid religion, one for the atheist’s!

[MaccA]

If you guys want to diversify into a science discussion why don't you make your own thread?

If I can be so rude as to drag this thread back to the topic, I think the simplest take on this software is; if it helps any of the projects it works with in the smallest way then it has been worth my slightly higher (arguable) electricity bill.

superscaper

[MaccA] wrote: »

If you guys want to diversify into a science discussion why don't you make your own thread?

If I can be so rude as to drag this thread back to the topic, I think the simplest take on this software is; if it helps any of the projects it works with in the smallest way then it has been worth my slightly higher (arguable) electricity bill.

"Bit off topic but I think the sentiment is the same, it may be possible to get some successes from grid computing "