Want to do your bit and help discover amazing new medicines, decrypt alien codes, restructure DNA or engineer new fuels?

I do – and I involve myself in ALL that.

(You might say “gasp, it’s costing you big time??)

Heck no,

I merely partcipate in the distributed computing networks of the US government. It works like thus:

1) sign up for an account at a gov’t lab (free)
2) download software (free)
3) gov’t sends you data to munch n’ crunch
4) your PC processes data and sends it back. transparently!
5) pat yourself on the back for doing the world a favor!

There’s no monetary rewards or medals involved. All you get is that warm glow from knowing you helped made the world a better place.

Here are some such sites:

http://predictor.scripps.edu/

http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/

I particularly like SETI at home. When do do find some green alien I’ll know I helped dig up the little bugger!

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