[Gllug] seti

[Simon Stewart]

On Thursday, Jan 2, 2003, at 09:54 Europe/London, Stig Brautaset wrote:

> On Jan 02 2003, Martin wrote:
>> Does gllug have a setiathome team?  If not, shall we form one?  I 
>> have just
>> over 3000 work units going begging.
>
> As much as I'd like the setiathome project to succeed (in the sense 
> that
> they discover ET intelligent life), I'd rather spend my CPU cycles 
> doing
> cancer research or similar. It probably has more chance of succeeding.

I would, if the drugs that are developed from my donated cycles are 
patent free and offered at a reasonably low cost. Last time I read the 
T&Cs for one of the "cancer cure" programs, this wasn't the case. And 
let's not forget the debacle when one of the programmes switched to 
something to do with curing anthrax:

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=2542

Reprehensible scum.

Cheers,

Simon


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