Folding at Home (what is this?)

[Z]

Guy Fraser wrote:

> It's not that I don't care about humanity and science, but the 
> pharmaceutical
> companies that will benefit seem to care more about profits than 
> humanity.

They are also amazingly patent-happy. It intrigues me that the patent 
office won't allow moto perpetuums,
but living organisms are OK! As if the patent would describe how to 
_make_ a strain of rice or an apple of a certain color...

Z

> Many if not most of the scientists are likely more concerned about
> humanity, but they don't run the companies or market the products.
>
> So for now I will just help look for extraterrestrials, but I've 
> always wondered
> about what I win if my computer finds one. ;-)
>