Or what....
I've been getting rather frustrated as the amount of outbound work, speed of processing things as minor as old-SETI-credits-Mar-Dec-05 (a pure vanity thing I know), few units arriving here for work (3 machines No Waiting)

Then reading that SAH's difficulties are caused by things like having only 1 TB of storage to analyze results. Which can be doubled for about $400 if the server doesn't need SCSI.

Question, What Does SETI Need Most? Either <product/service/personnel> or <grant for same> be specific - let us know what we can convonce our bosses , friendly companies and foundations (anyone hit BillandMelindaG up recently or even made application?) to contribute.

Or, is it a general failure in interest in SETI at large (the concept) that has caused this shoe-string budget crisis. I mean I know Washington, or at least the White House would like to stamp out science in general and replace it with the KJRV (not meant to insult those who share that faith/mythos - all of them are equal as personal guides, yet bad science,any other mythos imposed on each of us with our own mythos-belief structures would be as bad). I would hope a few years scanning a few stars wouldn't cause the hopeful to walk away too.


So Guys in Charge, whazup? (might help to post yer latest IRS 990 as well)

Buy a $400 TB unit, run it at the rate they guys are for 3 months, see if it lasts. Cheap hardware is NOT the way to go.

The Classic totals have been talked about at nauseum rates. If you just read the Home Page, and other posts you know they are currently migrating the Classic database to the Seti database. This has a few weeks to go, once done then they can clean up and copy the stats over. My best guestimate on this will be Feb-Mar 2006. The merge takes an outage of 24+ hours.

They are working on some grant purposals. I am unsure how big these are, but it's being worked on. You can always point people and companies to the Donate Page. Cash is always good. They even have hardware specifications that they are looking for to be donated.

I believe that the project gets no government backing (I believe I read this somewhere from the developers in their messages), but I could be wrong. I am almost sure this is all (or almost all) Private funding.

As for tax things, I believe they have a way to request that information, but I am betting like most of those it's got to be done with a snail-mail letter, to the correct department.

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SETI hasn't received government funding for years. I see no reason to insult the President that half of all Americans voted for.

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