I received the following e-mail a few days ago. I thought I'd see it mirrored or mentioned on the forums, but I don't. I'll repost it for anyone that didn't get it, and maybe we can list donations below.

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SETI@home needs your help!

In the last year, SETI@home has made great steps forward thanks to the generosity of volunteers like you. Earlier this year we were able to use the Green Bank Telescope (pictured) in West Virginia to expand our search to include the nearly 100 potentially habitable planets found by the Kepler Mission. We've also re-observed seventy two of the 102 sources of unidentified radio pulses found with our Astropulse search. We hope to observe the remaining sources soon. While it's likely that these pulses are a natural phenomenon, we don't yet know what we will find. Data from both these projects have arrived or are on their way to Berkeley and will be sent to our volunteers in the coming months. Without the support of user donations, these major new extensions to the SETI@home experiment would not have been possible.

Though the SETI@home experiment has been active for over eleven years, we are still branching out and exploring new scientific directions. As you may know, the data that your computer analyzes comes principally from the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico. While Arecibo is an immensely powerful telescope, it cannot see the entire sky. In the past we have been able to perform short duration observations at the Green Bank Telescope. But in the coming year, we plan to start continuous collection of data at the Green Bank Telescope, allowing us to listen in on parts of the sky that, up until now, we have not been able to reach.

We're also in the process of adding a new search algorithm to the SETI@home application. This new algorithm, called autocorrelation, will make us sensitive to certain broad band or spread spectrum transmissions without predicting their characteristics beforehand. No SETI sky survey has utilized this type of algorithm before.

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 citizens of Earth at-large. 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 eleven 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,

Dr. Eric Korpela, Project Scientist

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So here's my bit:

Thank you for your gift of $30.00 via Mastercard on 10/05/2011.
Your gift was assigned to the following areas:

SETI@home - $30.00

Your confirmation number is:
78739

Amazingly, I haven't been able to get a full cache on all my boxen in literally months. Sometimes they ran dry too. However. shortly after donating the caches filled up. Coincidence? Post hoc ergo propter hoc? Must be some new two-tier system. ;^)

I'm really looking forward to the Kepler/Green Bank work. Let's see some other donations to make it happen.

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Amazingly, I haven't been able to get a full cache on all my boxen in literally months. Sometimes they ran dry too. However. shortly after donating the caches filled up. Coincidence? Post hoc ergo propter hoc? Must be some new two-tier system. ;^)

Same here, i'm sure it's coincidence though.

Edit: Just checked and it seems the Media Centre has run out of work again. Sic transit gloria mundi!

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Life on earth is the global equivalent of not storing things in the fridge.

SETI@home needs your help!

In the last year, SETI@home has made great steps forward thanks to the generosity of volunteers like you. Earlier this year we were able to use the Green Bank Telescope (pictured) in West Virginia to expand our search to include the nearly 100 potentially habitable planets found by the Kepler Mission. We've also re-observed seventy two of the 102 sources of unidentified radio pulses found with our Astropulse search. We hope to observe the remaining sources soon. While it's likely that these pulses are a natural phenomenon, we don't yet know what we will find. Data from both these projects have arrived or are on their way to Berkeley and will be sent to our volunteers in the coming months. Without the support of user donations, these major new extensions to the SETI@home experiment would not have been possible.

Though the SETI@home experiment has been active for over eleven years, we are still branching out and exploring new scientific directions. As you may know, the data that your computer analyzes comes principally from the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico. While Arecibo is an immensely powerful telescope, it cannot see the entire sky. In the past we have been able to perform short duration observations at the Green Bank Telescope. But in the coming year, we plan to start continuous collection of data at the Green Bank Telescope, allowing us to listen in on parts of the sky that, up until now, we have not been able to reach.

We're also in the process of adding a new search algorithm to the SETI@home application. This new algorithm, called autocorrelation, will make us sensitive to certain broad band or spread spectrum transmissions without predicting their characteristics beforehand. No SETI sky survey has utilized this type of algorithm before.

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 citizens of Earth at-large. 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 eleven 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,

Dr. Eric Korpela, Project Scientist

I chipped in again with another $20, I thought that they might have
given me a green twinkling star to go with my lovely persona ?? tee-he.

79068

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Did you see This Thread in Number Crunching?

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Donald
Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired

Did you see This Thread in Number Crunching?

Yes... er... just now. Ahem.
I even searched and didn't find it before I posted this.
(Why would it be in Number Crunching?)

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Did you see This Thread in Number Crunching?

Yes... er... just now. Ahem.
I even searched and didn't find it before I posted this.
(Why would it be in Number Crunching?)

Because that is where the vast majority of Forum visitors post/read?

NC is the tech support section, along with Q&A. Folks go there to get their questions answered, especially when there are project server or connect issues. They see the Donation Drive threads, (usually sticky at the top of the list) and maybe toss a few dollars/euros/yen/etc in the hopper. A much smaller percentage of us stop off here in the pub.

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Donald
Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired

Some cafe visitors dont read number crunching.
So it doesn´t hurt to have one here as well i imagine.

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With each crime and every kindness we birth our future.

Some cafe visitors dont read number crunching.
So it doesn´t hurt to have one here as well i imagine.

True. Or at least a pointer to the NC thread - which, I just noticed, has been made sticky so it stays at the top of the list. Having 1 main Donations thread also makes it easier to keep a tally of donations, as uli did for the last couple drives.

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Donald
Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired