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Arecibo Observatory, the world's largest radio telescope and the source for
the SETI@home data that your computer analyzes, faces massive budget cuts
that will END its ability to continue the search for life beyond Earth. The
decision to ensure full funding currently rests upon votes in Congress on
Senate Bill S.

2862 and House Resolution H.R. 3737. These bills desperately need more
support.

Please take a moment to help us SAVE ARECIBO.

Clicking the link below will direct you to a web page that allows you to
print out letters prepared for your Senators and Congressional
Representative urging them to support Arecibo. Printing and mailing the
letters is really easy, too!

You will also have the chance to add a few personal thoughts, if you wish,
to let your Senators and Representative know why this funding is important
to you!

And if you're really feeling passionate about saving Arecibo, please use
these letters as the basis for letters you write yourself, urging your
congressmen and women to vote to save Arecibo.

Because our representatives in Congress rarely give much attention to all
the email they receive, printing out and MAILING these letters via standard
U.S.

Postal mail remains our best option for contacting them and our best hope
for saving Arecibo (The second best option is to call your representatives).
Your

42 cent stamps on these letters could help us get the millions of dollars
needed to save Arecibo.

Our search cannot continue without the necessary support. Your work, as
SETI@home participants, represents an indispensable resource for conducting
the search. Now, we need your help to ensure that our other most valuable
resource

- our eyes and ears to the cosmos - can continue to probe the universe as we
seek to answer the question: Is there anybody out there?

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

Thank you for your help,

The SETI@home Team

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