SETI sent me a letter, so I sent one back

[gatekeeper53]

Wow DC spam! Now there is an idea that I hope doesn't catch on.

[Steve Lux]

SETI response part Deux. (I also got another SETI letter)

Apparently you didn't read my last response. I don't want you to find what you are looking for.

This very impersonal big-corporation-like disregard to individual will exemplifies one of the issues I have with organizations such as yours. But that is only a secondary issue.

Our very survival as a species may depend upon our not being noticed - don't you people ever watch the nature channel? If this is the case then your organization may be facilitating our destruction. Unlike you, I think mankind needs to develop further before reaching out. We have yet to learn to deal with each other.

Please remove me from your e-mail list.

-Steve Lux


(Edit: I later noticed an "Remove from e-mail list option - and used it)

[mitchellds]

or the Independence Day Movie.

[Scooter]

or the Independence Day Movie.

I liked that movie cause we won in the end, but we sure did suffer some damage first

[Evil-Dragon]

I got another e-mail. I'm not interested!!!

[PcManiac]

I First got into DCing with SETI, it was set up on the computers at school... at first I was like ... "what the heck is this?". I then lost interest for a little bit, but after I found out that there are more things to do than SETI, I got back into it.

However. I am just glad that there Are NOT any Extraterrestrials out there waiting to eat us!

[Beerknurd]

Look what I just got... ($540,000 to operate for a year... Are they serious??? )




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

Dear Beerknurd,

SETI@home needs your help. The SETI@home team has accomplished much in the
past 6 months. We have successfully deployed the "enhanced" version of
SETI@home. The new seven beam data recorder has been installed at Arecibo (the
world's largest radio telescope) and is recording the data that will be
analyzed in the next phase of SETI@home.

But there is still far more to be done. We would like to be able to sift
through the results returned by your computers in order to identify candidates
more rapidly so we can re-observe them. This rapid response validation system
would also give you the ability to see the results your computers have/has
returned in more detail.

To keep SETI@home operating for the next year, and to provide these new
capabilities, will require approximately $540,000. Currently SETI@home is
entirely funded by donations from people like you.

We hope that you will consider making a donation to SETI@home at this time.
You can make a secure donation by credit card on our website
(http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/donate.php). 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.

You can check on our fundraising progress by visiting our main site at
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu.

Thank you for helping the search for ET, and for considering a donation to
SETI@home.

Sincerely,

Sir Arthur C. Clarke (Author and Futurist)
Dan Werthimer (Chief Scientist, SETI@home)

For more information about how to donate:
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[Evil-Dragon]

Isn't it funny how Rosetta isn't asking for $500k to keep their project running and it's benefitting humanity more than searching for aliens ever did. I hope the SETI project closes to be honest, at least that way all that wasted CPU time will go to projects that are more 'down to earth' and benefit people.

[Steve Lux]

Because of what has been done for SETI, namely distributed computing, I cannot wish them ill. But among other issues I have with them - from a business perspective I cannot fathom how an organization can expend so much intellectual effort and such economic resources for so many years without results and yet still consider itself a viable investment.

According to L. Ron Hubbard (Scientology) there is supposed to be a spaceship of higher beings in Earth orbit at this moment - and yet we cannot detect it? Apparently SETI isn't looking in the right place, or something just doesn't match up.

[vaughan]

So Seti At Home wants $476,000 says the letter I got today. So do I.