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Message 51459 - Posted: 17 Feb 2008, 21:49:50 UTC

So I need to ask...after reading this thread (and still not quite understanding all the biology/chemistry mumbo jumbo) a few questions:

1)What, in general, has RAH found so far? In laymen's terms please...have we found any cures to anything?

2)It's been at least 2+ years since RAH has launched...how close are we to finding/reaching ANY of the projects goals? Again, please answer the question in plain old English. :)

3)After 2+ years we only have 500,000 participants in this project? Don't you find that extremely low (regardless of how other @HOME projects are doing). Does RAH advertise at all? I've never seen RAH mentioned in Time, Discover, Scientific American, the news, etc. With over 300million people in the U.S. alone, (and I would bet there are at least 100million US residents have computers powerful enough to join RAH), why is the participation so low? We're at 0.5% of the U.S. population. The world population is 6+BILLION (yes, I know not all 6 billion people have a pc) but for a project that seems so meaningful, why is there so low attendance (of people, not CPUs)?


I am really excited about this project but just don't understand what we've found, what we are hoping to find in the next ___ months, and why the participation is so low.

Thanks a bunch!

-Eric
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Message 51473 - Posted: 18 Feb 2008, 12:01:59 UTC - in response to Message 51459.  
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Perhaps because the Project team refuses to discuss the possibility of adding a client for the millions of PS3's in use, and isn't interested in the resultant free publicity that such a client would generate (even bringing in new pc crunchers) ?


So I need to ask...after reading this thread (and still not quite understanding all the biology/chemistry mumbo jumbo) a few questions:

3)After 2+ years we only have 500,000 participants in this project? Don't you find that extremely low (regardless of how other @HOME projects are doing). Does RAH advertise at all?
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