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Dear alvintseng,
The SETI@home team has achieved much progress in the past year. We have
successfully started the next phase of SETI@home by distributing data recorded
with the new seven beam data recorder. This data is being analyzed with a new
"Multi-beam" version of SETI@home, which was released in July. With the new
data recorder, we are looking at seven places in the sky simultaneously while
recording fourteen times as much data as before. This means we need more
volunteers like you to help us process this data. So please, tell a friend
about SETI@home.
But there is still far more to be done. Although we are pleased with the
success of last winter's funding drive, and grateful for the generosity of our
donors, we are still operating with minimal funds. These budget constraints
have forced us down to less than 3 full time employees. With more funds we
hope to hire an additional person to maintain the servers and web site. This
would free our existing employees to work on a method of sifting through the
results returned by your computers in order to identify candidates more
rapidly so we can re-observe them. This rapid response validation system would
also give you the ability to see the results your computers have returned in
more detail.
To keep SETI@home operating for the next year, and to provide these new
capabilities, we will need to raise approximately $476,000. Currently
SETI@home is entirely funded by donations from people like you.
We hope that you will consider making a donation to SETI@home at this time.
You can make a secure donation by credit card by clicking on the link at the
top of this e-mail. Instructions for donation by check or money order are
there as well. Unless you specify otherwise, your donation will be noted by a
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you choose to have your donation be anonymous, SETI@home will not share your
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You can check on our fundraising progress by visiting our main site at
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Thank You,
Charles H. Townes
(Nobel Laureate, Inventor of the Laser and Optical SETI Pioneer)
Dan Werthimer
(Chief Scientist, SETI@home)
For more information about how to donate see:
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