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[arasteo]

Θα σας κουράσω λίγο αλλα πιστεύω αξίζει το κόπο .

 

Σήμερα έλαβα ένα e-mail που με πονήρεψε...-οι γνωστές απάτες του internet-.....αλλά στη συνέχεια το κείμενο του μηνύματος χωρίς ψεγάδια . Αν αυτά που λέει είναι αληθή ,πρόκειται κατά την προσωπική μου άποψη για μια πραγματική επιστημονική απώλεια , το θεωρώ σημαντικό επιστημονικό πείραμα που όλοι μας πρέπει να εισφέρουμαι με τον όποιο τρόπο μπορούμε .

 

Παραθέτω το κείμενο

 

(Donate to SETI@home at http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/donate.php)

 

Dear arasteo,

 

SETI@home needs your help. But before we tell you why - and how you can

help - Dan and I would like to thank you for your role in the SETI@home

success story.

 

We would first like to thank you for your participation in SETI@home

(http://setiathome.berkeley.edu). During the first SETI@home project you

personally assisted us by searching for extraterrestrial signals in 5 data

chunks and providing 0.022 years of computing time. We want you to know we

appreciate your efforts and the efforts of the other 5.4 million

volunteers who have donated over 2.4 million years of processing time.

When we started, people thought our projection of 100,000 users to be

overly optimistic! You helped us prove that public participation in

scientific computing could work. You also helped us to see that this type

of community effort deserved to be more common. That's why we developed

the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing or BOINC. BOINC has

the benefit of allowing our volunteers the option of sharing their

processing power with other worthy projects in addition to SETI@home.

These projects range from looking for gravitational waves to searching for

cures to diseases.

 

But all these successes are just a beginning. If you have not visited the

SETI@home website recently, we have successfully transitioned to operating

under BOINC. Because of this, new searches are on the horizon for

SETI@home. We are releasing a new version of our processing software that

increases the sensitivity of our search by a factor of two or more. We are

building and installing a new data recorder at Arecibo. This data recorder

operates in conjunction with a newly installed receiver that has the

capability to observe seven places on the sky simultaneously. It also

increases our sensitivity by another factor of five. These increases in

sensitivity mean that SETI@home will have capability of detecting signals

that are three times more distant than we could before. The region of

space we can search will expand by a factor of thirty. That's thirty times

the chance that your computer will detect that faint signal from another

star.

 

This increase in capability isn't without cost. Following the "dot com"

bust, the commercial support that kept SETI@home running has largely

disappeared. Because of this loss of support, we can no longer count on

matching funds from the University of California. We are rapidly

approaching the end of what funds we do have. We we will need to raise

about $750,000 to pay for these new capabilities and to keep SETI@home

operating for the next year. Without this support SETI@home may be forced

to shut down (http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/sah_budget.php).

 

We hope that you will consider making a donation to SETI@home

(http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/donate.php). You can make a secure

donation by credit card by clicking this link. Instructions for donation

by check or money order are there as well. Unless you specify otherwise,

your donation will be noted by a star icon next to your username on the

SETI@home pages and your username will appear on our list of donors. If

you do not wish to have this recognition you may indicate that as well.

Please be assured that regardless of whether or not you choose to have

your donation be anonymous, SETI@home will not share your address with

other organizations.

 

You can check on our fundraising progress by visiting our main site at

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu

 

Thank You,

 

Sir Arthur C. Clarke (Author and Futurist)

Dan Werthimer (Chief Scientist, SETI@home)

 

For more information about how to donate:

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/donate.php

 

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Μάλλον για αληθινό το κόβω

[aristarchus]

Θοδωρη,

 

Ελαβα και εγω το ιδιο μηνυμα εδω και περιπου τρεις εβδομαδες και το ανακοινωσα εδω στο ΑστροΒοξ (ειναι στα αρχεια).

[arasteo]

Αντώνη συγνώμη δεν το είχα αντιληφθεί .