The reason I am asking this question is that I just received in the snail mail system a request for funds from the Planetary Society for the Optical SETIat Harvard University and Southern SETI at the Argentine Institute for Radio Astronomy. Is our SETI@Home part of this fund raising request?

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The reason I am asking this question is that I just received in the snail mail system a request for funds from the Planetary Society for the Optical SETIat Harvard University and Southern SETI at the Argentine Institute for Radio Astronomy. Is our SETI@Home part of this fund raising request?

Let me try and explain this...

SETI@home (which includes MultiBeam & AstroPulse) is the only participating BOINC project which searches for ETI...

There are many other searches SETI, each from different institutes/universities/groups.

There are a few types of SETI including Optical SETI (search through light pulses) METI (does this count?) and so on.

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- Luke.

Nope, SETI@Home is only running at Berkeley and Arecibo is where we get the data to process.

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Any email asking for money, should be looked at in a skeptical light.

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Any email asking for money, should be looked at in a skeptical light.

True, but the Planetary Society is a well-established group. Many of the links from the S@H Science Newsletters page are to articles they've published.

As to how many different SETI searches have been or are active, the Wikipedia SETI article references many and has links to other sources.

                                                                Joe

The decision to donate is totally up to you. But the Planetary Society has been around a long time. I’ve been a member since long before Seti@home classic started. Don’t exactly remember but I think Carl Sagan was one of the founders or early supporters. It was a letter from Carl that got me to join. I had been a student of his. Before S@H Society members were encouraged to build their own radio listening stations. I even built the VSA. (Very Small Array) I had collected 9 of the big old TV satellite dishes and linked them together to a central command station. It worked for about 2 years, but then the Air Force installed a satellite telemetry station right next door. It completely drowned me out.
Your question as to how many Seti searches there are? A lot. I don’t think anyone really knows. There are still many small ones out there. I still set up an optical search site in the summer months. We humans are a curious lot.

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The reason I am asking this question is that I just received in the snail mail system a request for funds from the Planetary Society for the Optical SETIat Harvard University and Southern SETI at the Argentine Institute for Radio Astronomy. Is our SETI@Home part of this fund raising request?

I got the same snail mail. A careful reading seems to indicate that SETI@Home is not part of the fund raising request. That makes me wonder if they put in for funds or not. I did see how SETI@Home was being leveraged as a way to get funds for the other projects. It looks like the pitch was for startup funding for new searches.

As for how many SETI searches there are out there the number is unknown. I suspect that serious searches number somewhere around three dozen. Even the SSL at Berkley is involved in more than one.

I would invite people to join the Planetary Society as they do a lot of good stuff.

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