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[OT] Seti@Home - You made a difference...

Woke up and this was in my inbox:

Dear Planetary Society Members, supporters
and SETI@ home volunteers,

We're always telling our Members and supporters that
"You Make it Happen." And here's proof you do!

Media around the world just broke the story of the
World Community Grid, a massive project that will use
the Internet in cutting-edge health sciences research.
This is a direct descendant of SETI@ home, the project
that you made happen.

MSNBC reports that the World Community Grid, developed
in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health,
the World Health Organization, the United Nations and
other organizations, "owes a debt to SETI@ home, which
in the 1990s first popularized the notion that PC users
could donate computer time for radio telescope astronomy
data analysis via the Internet."

This exciting new project will, according to the New York
Times, help "unlock the genetic mysteries of illnesses
like AIDS, Alzheimer's disease, malaria and cancer."

Your support for SETI@ home has also flowered in the
creation of Berkeley Online Infrastructure for Network
Computing, affectionately known as BOINC, which also
boasts innovative projects, including:

- Einstein@ home, a project that investigates the
fundamental structure of time and space in the universe
by looking for pulsars based on their gravity-wave emissions;

- PlanetQuest, which is seeking extrasolar planets by
searching astrophotographs for occlusions; and

- LHC@ home from CERN (the famous laboratory located near
Geneva, Switzerland), a project that is optimizing the
design of the world's largest particle accelerator.

None of this would be happening without your support.
Five years ago, when SETI@ home first went looking for
sponsors, just about no one saw the great potential
this software possessed for making a difference in
this world. No one, except for the Planetary Society
and its Members, that is. The Society, as the project's
founding sponsor, got it off the ground.

The Planetary Society - with Members and supporters
around the world - really does make it happen.
Thank you!

With best wishes,

Louis Friedman

_____________________________________

For more information on BOINC go to:
»planetary.org/html/UPDAT ··· 404.html

Support Planetary Society Projects at:
»planetary.org/donations.html

basher99
Premium Member
join:2004-02-26
Pekin, IL

basher99

Premium Member

i recieved the same email just esterday as well. Glad we could help make such a difference in the world of science

Crystallize
Premium Member
join:2003-04-09
brkn' inside

Crystallize to exocet_cm

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to exocet_cm
A lot of the projects are commercialized and gains specific companies (specially the medical projects) and I wonder why I as a non US citizen would even consider them ? Answer: I don't !!!

But this PlanetQuest seems interesting and actually quite a bit the same as the ETs have to have a planet where to live.

But still, perhaps I gotten oversensitive about this stuff over the time, but I'll stick to SETI as long as they have any use for my computing power.

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Ignorance is the most dangerous weapon of all !

a4nic8er
Tempus Fugit, Carpe Cerevisi
join:2001-03-09
New Zealand

a4nic8er

Member

I agree with you Crystalize.

I wont dedicate my spare cycles to anything that may result in a specific entity benefitting financially. Might be different if they were offering me stock though.

Am wondering what to move to if/when Seti classic ends.