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Dear Fuzzy Hollynoodles,

Thank you for your contributions to SETI@home this past year. Because of
donors like you, the SETI@home team has made much progress in the past year.
We successfully released our "Astropulse" application which searches the data
for high power pulses, which, some have argued, may be a more efficient
technique for an extraterrestrial civilization to transmit signals. No SETI
project has searched for this type of signal before. We also may detect new
types of interstellar or intergalactic objects using this technique. However,
the technique requires much CPU power. This means we need more volunteers like
you to help us process this data. So please, tell a friend about SETI@home.

We've also made significant progress on our Near Time Persistency Checker
(NTPCKR) which sifts through the potential signals you have returned to find
those that are most likely to be of extraterrestrial origin. We have more
surprises to come, which we will announce in the coming weeks and months.

But there is still far more to be done. Although we are pleased with the
success of last winter's funding drive, and grateful for the generosity of our
donors, we still don't have a sufficient budget to accomplish our science goals
as quickly as we would like. With more funds we hope to hire an additional
person to maintain the servers and web site. This would free our existing
researchers to work more on the science of SETI@home and increase our chances
of finding an extraterrestrial signal, and less on keeping our servers
operational.

To keep SETI@home operating for the next year, and to provide these new
capabilities, we will need to raise approximately $548,200. Currently
SETI@home is mostly funded by donations from people like you.

We hope that despite these difficult economic times, you are able to consider
making a donation to SETI@home at this time. You can make a secure tax
deductible donation by credit card by clicking on the link above. Instructions
for donation by check or money order are there as well. Unless you specify
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You can check on our fundraising progress, view our past and projected
budgets, and see more details of what we hope to accomplish in the coming year
by visiting our main site at http://setiathome.berkeley.edu.

Thank you,

Dan Werthimer
SETI@home Chief Scientist
Space Science Laboratory
University of California, Berkeley

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