Seti

You can actually download some software to your computer, that helps decode radio transmissions from space. In the hopes of getting a message from another alien spieces! Check it out

SETI (http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/)

Rather see one......

yeah, also I had that software where they were trying to decode the genome of some disease and it would run while you weren't using your computer. that was really cool. instead of using one super computer for the task they used thousands of home computers. i wish i still had that program. it made me feel like i was doing something to help ppl, you know.

Been doing it for 4 years.

Yeah, its a neat program. It might never actually accomplish anything, but it sure looks cool and important

Even if it never gets anywhere, it proves the power of distributed computing.