I received this today via email and thought it was worth reproducing in my blog. I certainly think Seti at Home is a worthwhile endeavor and it deserves our attention and support.
Winter 2012
Dear SETI@home Volunteer:In 2012, Americans spent more than $6 billion on political campaigns. (That’s 15,000times the annual SETI@home budget). And during the presidential campaign, none of the candidates mentioned SETI@home even once.
That’s OK. We understand that SETI isn’t a federal priority, and that no flood of federal dollars will be headed our way. But we hope that we’re still one of your priorities. SETI@home and the rest of the Berkeley SETI projects depend on your donations in order to keep going.
If you’ve already donated this fall, we thank you. If you haven’t, or if you liked the process so much you’d do it again, please consider making a donation by going to this link:
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/sah_donate.php
We promise we won’t spend it on commercials.
– Eric Korpela, SETI@home Project Scientist
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