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Old 03-11-2014, 05:27 AM   #7608
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Not so much of a joke, but something I find amusing and I don't think I've written it yet (here):

Proof that we're living in the future:
While charging, my eBook reader is comparing protein sequences, and my cell phone is calculating the effectiveness of antiviral drugs.

Naturally, that is somewhat embellished:
Spoiler:

My reader IS running Boinc and SIMAP, which compares proteins to see if they're similar (and might behave similar). It's apparently a rather simple calculation, since on my PC a single work unit takes only half an hour - the reader still needs 3 hours.

My cell phone is also running Boinc, and World Community Grids "Fight AIDS at Home" which does indeed try to calculate if specified drugs might be able to work against HIV, that is, which drugs are able to "dock" to a key protein, inhibiting the whole virus.
But it's "just" this virus, not generic like the sentence above would imply.
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