Time for a new Free Republic Folding@home thread. Our Free Republic team of 428 members comprised primarily of Free Republic members in good standing have banded together to donate their excess CPU cycles to a worthy cause. Via distributed computing, millions of computers around the world contribute directly to scientific research, in the quest for a greater understanding of diseases such as Alzheimer's, Cancer, and Mad Cow (BSE). Currently, the team is in 55th place (with 1,025 active CPUs - 106,120 completed Work Units and 20.25 million points). This is an entirely voluntary program, and if you want to learn...