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The bitcoin mining computations are pretty provably meaningless - all it is is looking for hash collisions. If you want examples of convincing millions of people to donate their computing power for meaningful computation, with no financial incentive, look at folding@home or rosetta@home.
Oh, I know -- this is a case of weird meme propagation, not of lizard overlords tricking humankind.