I think distributed computing is an awesome thing... but I'd rather be doing it in the small chance of earning cash than finding a useless prime number. However, with the current rate for the RC5-72, it is not going to be finished for many years...
In fact, the current project will not suceed in any of our lifetimes at the current rate. It will take 1179 years to finish. Join up! Distributed.net needs more crunching power! Membership is down to less than an eigth of what it was for RC5-64.
We can even make a TFproject team if you want!
Check it out at
Distributed.net
Things like this really have no point, but maybe over time distributed computing will get a serious notice and one day, we'll actually be paid for it and people will stop building super computers....