Rosetta@home

[Bill_Thompson]

Decoding the human genome may be the greatest scientific achievement of this century. But before we can put that knowledge to work, scientists need to take the research a step further — they need to understand the proteins that are built from our DNA.

The goal of Rosetta@home is to determine the shape and function of as many proteins as possible, and to make this information available to researchers worldwide at no cost.

Rosetta researchers are relying on a technique known as distributed computing, which pools the resources of idle computers everywhere. Put together hundreds or thousands of home computers, and all of a sudden a scientist has what amounts to a super computer to solve complex problems.

The knowledge that is generated and shared through this project has the potential to fast-forward efforts to cure such diseases as malaria, cancer, HIV and Alzheimer’s

So stop being a SETI@Home, head-in-the-sand, ignorant ass hole and download the Rosetta@home software.

Afterall, Enrico Fermi was a hell of a lot smarter than you, dumbass. So stop dreaming of finding a vulcan to mate with and do something useful with your time and life on Earth.

Edited to linkify links. -Lance

[Halcyon Dayz, FCD]

So stop being a SETI@Home, head-in-the-sand, ignorant ass hole...

Gone over to the dark side?

Afterall, Enrico Fermi was a hell of a lot smarter than you, dumbass.

Can you proof that?

So stop dreaming of finding a vulcan to mate with and do something useful with your time and life on Earth.

Proselytising?

Bill has started a cult.

Enrico Fermi (PBUH) is the Prophet, and Bill his apostle.

[Cyndi]

Bill has started a cult.

Enrico Fermi (PBUH) is the Prophet, and Bill his apostle.

[Lonewulf]

Bill has started a cult.

Enrico Fermi (PBUH) is the Prophet, and Bill his apostle.

[Lance]

So stop being a SETI@Home, head-in-the-sand, ignorant ass hole and download the Rosetta@home software.

Afterall, Enrico Fermi was a hell of a lot smarter than you, dumbass. So stop dreaming of finding a vulcan to mate with and do something useful with your time and life on Earth.

Bill;
How can you make a post like that and then call others ignorant? You either don't understand the meaning of the word "ignorant", "irony", or both.

And by the way, Rosetta@home is a BOINC project. BOINC is a technology that was developed by the SETI@Home folks, so it would not even exist had it not been for the success of SETI@Home.

Are you really such an idiot, or do you just play one on the internet?

I see that even Cyndi is laughing at you in public now. Your own flesh-and-blood cousin. You really need to consider how low you've gone. You're not funny anymore.

[Lonewulf]

Are you really such an idiot, or do you just play one on the internet?

Oo! Oo! Can I answer that one? Pleeeease? I'll be good!

[Bill_Thompson]

Bill has started a cult.

Enrico Fermi (PBUH) is the Prophet, and Bill his apostle.

It is more like you are in the Cult of Carl. Study the dark history of the popular leader who started the trend by his book The Cosmos.

Or better yet, ask any academic whom they have more respect for: Segan or Fermi.

It doesn't matter if it is part of one project, Lance, Set@home sucks up too much of its resources. You will do better being an administrator than participating in treating this forum as a means for your own enjoyment. It is no fun if you only allow those who tow your line to participate and you ban anyone who disagrees with your delusions.

And notice the glee you express in undercutting someones statements with rude personal attacks. You are not a thinking man.

[Bill_Thompson]

So stop being a SETI@Home, head-in-the-sand, ignorant ass hole...

Gone over to the dark side?

Afterall, Enrico Fermi was a hell of a lot smarter than you, dumbass.

Can you proof that?

Obviously I was generalising. I have no idea how smart you are. But you just have to go to the Nobel Prise website and read the biography of Enrico Fermi to get the idea that he is most likely smarter than almost everyone alive today.

[Lance]

It is no fun if you only allow those who tow your line to participate and you ban anyone who disagrees with your delusions.

If I were to ever ban you it would be for being as asshole, not for being stupid.

[Lonewulf]

And notice the glee you express in undercutting someones statements with rude personal attacks. You are not a thinking man.

So stop being a SETI@Home, head-in-the-sand, ignorant ass hole...

Afterall, Enrico Fermi was a hell of a lot smarter than you, dumbass.

Look down, your hypocrisy is showing. You may want to zip that...

[Lance]

And notice the glee you express in undercutting someones statements with rude personal attacks. You are not a thinking man.

Oh, I'm sorry. I forgot that it's only okay when you do it.

But I think you are confused, anyway. Comparing you to an idiot is not an attack on you. It is an attack on idiots.

[I Am He]

What little creditability you had left, just went right down the drain with that remark, Bill. (not that you had much to begin with) Your sick Hippy Crusades are getting to be to much also. It's one thing to state your views but it's another thing to try and shove them down other peoples throats.

You want me to bow down and worship someone just because you say so. Have you lost your fucking mind, you idiot??

Now go back and put your head back up your ass where it belongs.

[Lonewulf]

Now go back and put your head back up your ass where it belongs.

Wait, I'm confused...

When did Bill Thompson take his head out of his ass?

[Bill_Thompson]

I have not downloaded the software but it looks like you can choose which program you want the BONIC to run. The screen shots look like it focuses on the Rosetta program.

[Bill_Thompson]

What little creditability you had left, just went right down the drain with that remark, Bill. (not that you had much to begin with) Your sick Hippy Crusades are getting to be to much also. It's one thing to state your views but it's another thing to try and shove them down other peoples throats.

You want me to bow down and worship someone just because you say so. Have you lost your fucking mind, you idiot??

Now go back and put your head back up your ass where it belongs.

Let's see. Here are two things. On one hand we have cure cancer. On the other hand we have finding a distant culture the likelihood of us ever understanding or appreciating is infinitesimal. Hummm, I can see why you would choose the later.

[Dragon Star]

Wait, I'm confused...

When did Bill Thompson take his head out of his ass?

Don't worry, it goes both ways quite often.

Lance, I think you broke the Thompson toy, any way of fixing him?

[Lonewulf]

Hell, I really don't care. You lost my interest when you outright called everyone a dumbass for not using it. You wouldn't make a very good salesman, that's for sure.

[Lonewulf]

Let's see. Here are two things. On one hand we have cure cancer. On the other hand we have finding a distant culture the likelihood of us ever understanding or appreciating is infinitesimal. Hummm, I can see why you would choose the later.

Should we cut out space exploration entirely, then? After all, a lot of the possibilities for future space advancement is pretty far off... think about how much money we could save.

[Bill_Thompson]

Let's see. Here are two things. On one hand we have cure cancer. On the other hand we have finding a distant culture the likelihood of us ever understanding or appreciating is infinitesimal. Hummm, I can see why you would choose the later.

Should we cut out space exploration entirely, then? After all, a lot of the possibilities for future space advancement is pretty far off... think about how much money we could save.

That is night and day -- the ol' apples and oranges comparison.

[Lance]

Let's see. Here are two things. On one hand we have cure cancer. On the other hand we have finding a distant culture the likelihood of us ever understanding or appreciating is infinitesimal. Hummm, I can see why you would choose the later.

Stupid, insipid attempt at over-simplification noted.

[Lonewulf]

That is night and day -- the ol' apples and oranges comparison.

Wow, you know what a logical fallacy is?

Then why do you always use them?

[Dragon Star]

[Bill_Thompson]

That is night and day -- the ol' apples and oranges comparison.

Wow, you know what a logical fallacy is?

Then why do you always use them?

I do not think so. I am all for space exploration and I think the new space telescopes they will build will be very cool.

Intelligent radio signals from space? Yeah, right! It might be fun but there are better things to pour our energies into. As I said

Let's see. Here are two things. On one hand we have cure cancer. On the other hand we have finding a distant culture the likelihood of us ever understanding or appreciating is infinitesimal. Hummm, I can see why you would choose the later.

Disagreeing or attacking this view without elaboration is something I don't get. Look at the BOINC percentages. Most of it goes to SETI@HOME. It seems disproportionate compared to the Rosetta percentage. I am not sure if a user can choose which program he wants after downloading the overall project but it sure looks like he can from the screen shots.

Besides, if it wasn't for Marconi, how long would it have taken us to invent the radio? It seems like a huge leap in our evolution. I mean, how many people do you know can build a radio from scratch? Now given that with Fermi's Paradox, the interest in SETI kind of plummets for some people (I don't know how many).

I think discovering any life would be a huge advantage to us. I think that life includes what life has been on Earth for most of its existence. It has for the vast majority of its time been microbial.

[Lance]

Why do you always use [logical fallacies]?

I do not think so.

Fermi's Paradox

Which has been proved to be a logical fallacy.

[teri tait]

Marconi did not invent the radio, Nikola Tesla did. There was a lawsuit over this distinction that settled in favor of Nikola Tesla around 1943, several months after his death.