It is my understanding of drug research in general that it takes something on the order of 15 years from "WHAT IF" to an actual drug that hits the human testing phase. Even then many drugs that get this far fail becasue they cause dammange to some other organ or system in the body. It's also my understanding that through computer research such as the WCG'd dristrubited computing project that this calculation time is to be cut in as much as half. Even so when successfull results come back via the grid and other supercomputing projects, they still must be tested invitro, in a test tube that is, in lab and must all be done by human hands. Which even with world distrubution of the work throughout many labritories world wide still take and immense amount of time. Unfortunately it's not as if each human beign can have more than one brain or self, like me having two PC's working on the project. (Wouldn't that be wild. All the scientests duplicate multiple copies of themselves to continue working while another version sleeps/eats/etc.) We can and are building more and faster computers every day. And thanks to Moore's law somday soon I'll have a desktop pc running at 20Ghz doing the work of 20 PC's I have now, times however many thousands of computers are on the WCG. So some food for thought. All of you who are thinking about law school, go to medical school instead. Every year we graduate 20,000 too many lawyers, and 20,000 too few doctors. More computers will allways be built and at a dizzying pace. Unfortunatly AIDS and people dieing of it are keeping up with the pace of new computers being built. Untill we educate more scientests and more poor countries about HIV/AIDS we will continue to each make our small and very important contribution to the project.....My political statement here.....MAKE MORE DOCOTORS AND SCIENTESTS NOT LAWYERS! No lawyer will ever contribute to the curing/ stopping of HIV/AIDS!