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Originally Posted by devilsadvocate
More to the point, if they were that advanced what use would they have for us?
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That's roughly the question I have for the UFO bugs. What's so important about us that a species who
could do so would
bother to pay us a visit? Frankly, nothing.
I don't think the program needs to find anything to be valid.
It accomplishes two principal things:
First, it validates the computing model. If you have
enormous amounts of data to process, but it isn't time critical, breaking it up into small chunks and passing it around to be worked on in otherwise unused CPU cycles by many thousands of client machines is a good way to handle it.
The model is now being applied to other kinds of computation, like protein folding.
Second, it narrows the search area, and identifies areas to not bother looking at, helping narrow the possibilities.
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Dennis