Seven
09-24-06, 12:23 AM
Hey Folders,
I thought I'd share with you the reason why I personally fold, and I'm just trying to get you guys to think about why you fold, what drives you, and to get some positivity flowing around here.
Well about 6 years ago my grandma was diagnosed with lung cancer, with unknown causes. She had smoked in the past but quit when I, in my young age, told her that it was harmful to her in so many ways. My grandma, or "granny" as I called her, was probably one of the most influential people in my life thus far. I could go into the accounts of all the amazing moments we shared, but I'll save you the eye strain. I'm not sure if many of you have experienced similar things, but having somebody in your family be diagnosed with cancer is a terrible thing, but at the same time it truly does bring you closer to that person. Seeing somebody's body change in such radical ways as what chemotherapy does is quite traumatizing, yet at the same time you care for that person and the person realizes it. This is what brought me and granny so close. Cancer is a devastating thing for anybody to go through or even observe, and this is how it was for me. Granny was special to me in ways that no other person ever will be, and still influences me to this day. September 21, 2006 marked the 5 year anniversary of my granny's passing, and that day I was thinking about why I fold. I really considered why I, along with millions of other people, look for computers to borg, look for cycles to donate, look for ways of increasing production. And I wondered to myself, why do I fold?
In many ways, folding is something many of us do for fun. I find folding fascinating myself, a biological process we are only beginning to understand fully, yet something that is so complex and accounts for so many disorders and diseases that we cannot even begin to comprehend the implifications of the data we are processing every day. Why do I fold? It's a matter of remembering the past and looking to the future. My granny is the primary reason, but there are so many more that will need the research we do today. Even if my CPU cycles help 1 person in the long run, isn't that worth it? Isn't that worth running 24/7/365 for? The folding@home project has already been very successful. These simulations help scientists every day get closer to a cure. While we may not find the cure for cancer for another 5 years, or another 10 years, or even in our lifetimes, we must continue borging/folding/overclocking (only when stable though ;)). Imagine if your car, when parked in your garage or sitting idle at stoplights were able to be driven to deliver relief to impovrished countries or to do disaster relief. Imagine the impact that would make. It's a direct parallel to folding, why not donate what you're not using? It's about time that we ramp up our production, get a competitive spirit going within the folding community, not only for ourselves but for the billions of people who benefit from the research we do every day.
So what drives you? What do you have to lose from setting up a quota of rigs to borg yourself each month? What do you have to lose from telling your friends about the project?
For ourselves, for the fold, and for humanity.
Fold on!
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I thought I'd share with you the reason why I personally fold, and I'm just trying to get you guys to think about why you fold, what drives you, and to get some positivity flowing around here.
Well about 6 years ago my grandma was diagnosed with lung cancer, with unknown causes. She had smoked in the past but quit when I, in my young age, told her that it was harmful to her in so many ways. My grandma, or "granny" as I called her, was probably one of the most influential people in my life thus far. I could go into the accounts of all the amazing moments we shared, but I'll save you the eye strain. I'm not sure if many of you have experienced similar things, but having somebody in your family be diagnosed with cancer is a terrible thing, but at the same time it truly does bring you closer to that person. Seeing somebody's body change in such radical ways as what chemotherapy does is quite traumatizing, yet at the same time you care for that person and the person realizes it. This is what brought me and granny so close. Cancer is a devastating thing for anybody to go through or even observe, and this is how it was for me. Granny was special to me in ways that no other person ever will be, and still influences me to this day. September 21, 2006 marked the 5 year anniversary of my granny's passing, and that day I was thinking about why I fold. I really considered why I, along with millions of other people, look for computers to borg, look for cycles to donate, look for ways of increasing production. And I wondered to myself, why do I fold?
In many ways, folding is something many of us do for fun. I find folding fascinating myself, a biological process we are only beginning to understand fully, yet something that is so complex and accounts for so many disorders and diseases that we cannot even begin to comprehend the implifications of the data we are processing every day. Why do I fold? It's a matter of remembering the past and looking to the future. My granny is the primary reason, but there are so many more that will need the research we do today. Even if my CPU cycles help 1 person in the long run, isn't that worth it? Isn't that worth running 24/7/365 for? The folding@home project has already been very successful. These simulations help scientists every day get closer to a cure. While we may not find the cure for cancer for another 5 years, or another 10 years, or even in our lifetimes, we must continue borging/folding/overclocking (only when stable though ;)). Imagine if your car, when parked in your garage or sitting idle at stoplights were able to be driven to deliver relief to impovrished countries or to do disaster relief. Imagine the impact that would make. It's a direct parallel to folding, why not donate what you're not using? It's about time that we ramp up our production, get a competitive spirit going within the folding community, not only for ourselves but for the billions of people who benefit from the research we do every day.
So what drives you? What do you have to lose from setting up a quota of rigs to borg yourself each month? What do you have to lose from telling your friends about the project?
For ourselves, for the fold, and for humanity.
Fold on!
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