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Poll: Are you Folding?

Yes, for team MacRumors. I haven't updated my sig in about three days cause I'm on a big-ass WU at the moment on my Quicksilver G4... I update it after every WU though. I'm only been folding for less than two weeks, and should be in the 100s in not too long at this rate...
 
ahhh...

I've added 3 machines to the team effort today...they are set up to fold 24/7 so lets hope it helps a little :)
 
aiight ppl...

Im folding for you now...beers on me...just thought id say hihi :)

Folding with:

1 dual 800 G4
2 old pcs
1 imac 800
1 new pc

Soon to be added:

1 dual G5
1 heavily modded Prometeia Mach II cooled P4...when i finish building it :D

AND any other machines I can get my filthy hands on...

Mord
 
Re: aiight ppl...

Originally posted by LordMord
Im folding for you now...beers on me...just thought id say hihi :)

Folding with:

1 dual 800 G4
2 old pcs
1 imac 800
1 new pc

Soon to be added:

1 dual G5
1 heavily modded Prometeia Mach II cooled P4...when i finish building it :D

AND any other machines I can get my filthy hands on...

Mord
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mmmm BEEEER!

oh wait I don't drink...

mmmm refrigerated CPU's!
 
Yep, I just signed on to Folding.

I was debating between joining Folding and SETI and I realized this about SETI:

SETI will never find anything. SETI operates on the assumption that another civ is transmitting open radio transmissions like we do now in the form of TV and Radio. But every day we stop these signals, XM Radio is gaining momentum, cable and sat TV will soon supplant broadcast and most of our communications are handled by direct beam sattelites. Logically, in about 50 years we will be transmitting next to nothing when it comes to wide band signals that can bleed into space. If an alien civilization follows a similar course of progress to us then they would only have radio transmissions that bleed into space for 100-200 years. A few centuries is a blink of the eye on the galactic scale and it is my observation that SETI is hopeless due to this narrow, limited method of detection.

Odds are that there are no nearby alien cultures at the exact same point of development.
 
Durandal7 -- good points!

We have also noted SETI might be recycling work units over and the top teams might be cheating. :(

The worst thing that can happen in folding is the stats fail to load or crash. :rolleyes:
 
Originally posted by Durandal7
Yep, I just signed on to Folding.

I was debating between joining Folding and SETI and I realized this about SETI:

SETI will never find anything. SETI operates on the assumption that another civ is transmitting open radio transmissions like we do now in the form of TV and Radio. But every day we stop these signals, XM Radio is gaining momentum, cable and sat TV will soon supplant broadcast and most of our communications are handled by direct beam sattelites. Logically, in about 50 years we will be transmitting next to nothing when it comes to wide band signals that can bleed into space. If an alien civilization follows a similar course of progress to us then they would only have radio transmissions that bleed into space for 100-200 years. A few centuries is a blink of the eye on the galactic scale and it is my observation that SETI is hopeless due to this narrow, limited method of detection.

Odds are that there are no nearby alien cultures at the exact same point of development.
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That's true but if you consider the possibility of millions of civilizations (far fetched to some but very plausible to me and others). Also consider them to be at different stages of their evolution and also consider it takes thousands of years for a signal to get anywhere even nearby to us. Take all those variables in and you have to admit the possibility of receiving a signal isn't all that implausible. I for one think that even if we did and have received a signal that they would have been so garbled by gravitational distortion and other natural radio sources and radiation that there is little chance that we would identify them even if we were staring right at them.
 
Originally posted by MacBandit
That's true but if you consider the possibility of millions of civilizations (far fetched to some but very plausible to me and others). Also consider them to be at different stages of their evolution and also consider it takes thousands of years for a signal to get anywhere even nearby to us. Take all those variables in and you have to admit the possibility of receiving a signal isn't all that implausible. I for one think that even if we did and have received a signal that they would have been so garbled by gravitational distortion and other natural radio sources and radiation that there is little chance that we would identify them even if we were staring right at them.
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Seriously it will probably take 100's of years of advances before we could even descrambble a signal through thousands, millions or billions of miles large.
 
I think SETI is doing more harm than good, think of all the power used on CPU cycles that are returning nothing, its like spending a million dollars a year to have someone look for a specific molecule of water in an ocean.

It has good intentions, but its almost pointless.
 
Originally posted by Vlade
I think SETI is doing more harm than good, think of all the power used on CPU cycles that are returning nothing, its like spending a million dollars a year to have someone look for a specific molecule of water in an ocean.

It has good intentions, but its almost pointless.
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I wouldn't say that it's doing harm - it just isn't helping. I'll do SETI when there isn't anything left to fold, because folding has a finite end, unlike SETI.
 
But think of all the power consumed by SETI (and folding), all those wasted resources. I guess on a larger scale it is only about .00000000000000000000001% of the power used.
 
Originally posted by MacBandit
That's true but if you consider the possibility of millions of civilizations (far fetched to some but very plausible to me and others). Also consider them to be at different stages of their evolution and also consider it takes thousands of years for a signal to get anywhere even nearby to us. Take all those variables in and you have to admit the possibility of receiving a signal isn't all that implausible. I for one think that even if we did and have received a signal that they would have been so garbled by gravitational distortion and other natural radio sources and radiation that there is little chance that we would identify them even if we were staring right at them.
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Let's assume that there are 6 million advanced civilizations in the galaxy at any given time. Let's define an "advanced" civilization as a culture that has reached approx. 1800 AD technology level. Let's also assume that the average culture survives for around 4000 years past that point until their genetic stagnation finishes them off (assumiing they're brighter then humans, who will be gone in 200 years.)

If they progress at a rate similar to our culture then they would transmit "wide band" EM signals for about 200 years or %5 of their lifespan.This means that there is 300000 civilizations that are on par with us and waste energy by bleeding it off into space. The Milky Way galaxy has anywhere from 200 billion to 400 billion stars. Let's say 300 billion stars for the sake of simplicity.

We can then determine that the odds that SETI happens to be looking at one of the stars that happens to one of the 300000 cultures similar to our own is %.0000001. You are right about interference, if you assume that our odds of noticing the signal are bad it goes down to around %.0000000000001 that SETI will see anything when it looks at a star.

I personally think that 6 million may be a bit too high and that many civilizations will last more then 4000 years, in which case the probability is even lower.
 
OK, just joined the MacRumors team, got it running on the 17"PB, can't run the eMac all night as I have a long stay guest in the spare room, but when she's gone I'll install on that too.

Here's to team 3446:D
 
Today is a very sad day for me, today i will drop to my lowest ranking yet, and fall off the top 100 ranking team spot.

I was once at 40, slowly as bigger fish passed me, I was pushed down, lower, lower and finally I will have to view a whole new page to see my ranking.

The team has moved rappidly upwards, too fast for me

Goodbye MrMacMan 100 ranking:
 

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Today is a very sad day for me, today i will drop to my lowest ranking yet, and fall off the top 100 ranking team spot.

I was once at 40, slowly as bigger fish passed me, I was pushed down, lower, lower and finally I will have to view a whole new page to see my ranking.

The team has moved rappidly upwards, too fast for me

Goodbye MrMacMan 100 ranking:
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Muahahaha stomp stomp stomp. Get down there you bottom feeder STOMP! Sounds like it's time for a faster computer.:D :p
 
Originally posted by MacBandit
Muahahaha stomp stomp stomp. Get down there you bottom feeder STOMP! Sounds like it's time for a faster computer.:D :p
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Well thanks for that, what I really needed.

I think I'm going to cry, be back in like 1000 hours.

I got this computer for christmas. I was gone for 2 weeks not making any points during that time and I only have 1 computer running because all are too slow to run Os X.

But thanks for the nice comments.
 
Originally posted by MacBandit
Anytime you know you can count on me.


I'll see you guy in a few days I'm off to my wedding.
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congrats.

reminds me... I gotta get something for my wife for our anniversary...

(runs and hides)
 
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