SETI@home needs your help!

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SETI@home needs your help!

Green Bank TelescopeIn the last few months SETI@home has made great steps forward thanks to the generosity of volunteers like you. In October, SETI@home received donations that allowed us to make the exciting purchase of new high-performance servers. Over the last month, the project has been in an outage as the team here at UC Berkeley has worked tirelessly to clean up the databases and complete a full server migration. This will allow the project to run more smoothly than it ever has before. Without the support of user donations, this major upgrade to the project would not have been possible.

Though the SETI@home project has been active for over ten years, we are still branching out and exploring new scientific directions. As you may know, the data that your computer analyzes comes from the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico. While Arecibo is an immensely powerful telescope, it cannot see the entire sky. In the coming year, we hope to be able to start collecting data at The Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia, allowing us to listen in on parts of the sky that, up until now, we have not been able to reach.

Furthermore, in February of 2011, NASA is slated to release data from the Kepler Mission, containing the location of several new exoplanets that could potentially be home to intelligent life. In 2011, we hope to perform a targeted search of the Kepler field, looking for signs of intelligent life beyond Earth. This search would also be done at the Green Bank Telescope.

In order to carry out these exciting new plans, we would like to ask you again for your support. SETI@home has always been a collaborative effort on a global scale; there is no other project on Earth that is quite as dependent on the help and contributions of the global public. In order to keep SETI@home up and running, as well as accomplish this year's scientific goals, we need your help. To make a secure tax-deductible donation click here, which will take you to a page of instructions on how to donate online or through mail via check. Any amount that you are willing to donate this holiday season would be a great help. Your contribution will not only allow SETI@home to continue to run as it has for the past ten years, but also provide the opportunity to expand the search for intelligent life in exciting new directions. These efforts represent our best chance at answering the ever-elusive question: Are we alone?

Thank you for your support and continuing dedication to SETI@Home.

Sincerely,

Arielle Little, Student Intern
Dr. Eric Korpela, Project Scientist

[[PBT] Horpah]

Hejka
a mi dziś taki e-mail przysłali:

Dear Horpah:

We'd like to invite you to reconnect with SETI@home. Our records show that you've been with SETI@home since 21 May 1999, but it's been 60 days since you last returned a work unit. We want you back, and here's why:

At the opening of 2011, there are many exciting new projects to look forward to from SETI@home. For one, NASA is making public the Kepler Field data, which includes hundreds of new exoplanets that make interesting SETI candidates. We will be observing these candidates at the Greenbank telescope in West Virginia. We will also be installing a commensal, SERENDIP-like experiment at Greenbank to take SETI data simultaneously as other astronomers are observing. The opportunity to use the Greenbank telescope sends SETI@home into exciting, unexplored territory. Aside from these scientific goals, we are currently working on developing a crowd-sourcing tool for SETI@home that will in the future make user involvement in the project more interactive than ever before. What better time than now to become re-involved in SETI@home?

With these new developments also comes the need for computing power, for which we depend on people like you. We hope you will consider signing back on with SETI@home, and help in this wonderful scientific venture.

If you experienced problems running SETI@home, the answers to your questions may be found at: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/sah_help.php. If you don't find the answers you're looking for there, feel free to check out the BOINC Online Help System which lets you talk live, over the Internet, with a help volunteer: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/help.php

Thank you for the time and effort that you have given to SETI@home. We hope that you rejoin us in our search for signals from other worlds.

--The SETI@Home Team.

[Troll81]

Mnie ścigało podobnym WCG :D

[mimeq]

Ja tluke PM to mi nic nie przyslali  %)

[Arthusp]

To już jest jakaś nowa moda. Mnie też ścignęło m.in. WCG. Ale najlepsze było ścignięcie przez boincstats - napisali, że jeden z komputerów (testowa maszyna wirtualna) nie łączyła się jakiś czas (chyba 60 dni) i zostanie usunięta ze statystyk! Oczywiście to nie będzie miało wpływu na sumaryczną liczbę punków.

[Troll81]

Akurat czyszczenie tabel ze starych hostów willy zapowiadał juz dłuuuugi czas temu.

[AL]

Zarówno Seti jak i WCG rozsyłają takie "przypominajki" regularnie, jeśli mnie pamięć nie myli to raz do roku. Sam dostałem ich conajmniej kilka z obu projektów.

[Tomasz R. Gwiazda]

kee?
nigdy od projektu nie dostalem takiego infa

za to boincstats regularnie mnie informuje o kasowaniu starych (ciekawe, bo ja sam je kasuje jak sa zbyteczne)

[krzyszp]

kee?
nigdy od projektu nie dostalem takiego infa

Pewnie ci w spam idzie, bo ja również je dostaję...

[AL]

Wysyłają je w szczególności do tych którzy kiedyś liczyli projekt, a potem z niewyjaśnionych przyczyn przestali. Jest to taka forma jakby przypominajki. Ja np. przestałem liczyć te projekty - bo zacząłem liczyć inne, ale większość użytkowników po prostu albo przeinstalowała system i nie zainstalowała ponownie boinc albo go odinstalowała i to jest taka forma przypomnienia, namowy do powrotu do liczenia projektu.