Bumping up again. Please feel free to join our team. Crunch in memory of Carl Sagan.

Jeremy

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On behalf of Byron, and the rest of the team, I would like to invite you to join our team, and crunch in memory of Carl Sagan. From the team page:


Hello every one and Best wishes to you all ___ We are an


International team of friendly people from all around the


world who crunch work units in memory of Carl Sagan ....


Hello every one and Wellcome ___ __ nice to meet you ____ :)

if you would you Like to Crunch .... for .. CARL SAGAN ....

then

We ..... the following ... 67 ... people
from ... 19 ... different countries
all of us members of ..... our ... Carl Sagan ..... team
would like to invite you
to join ... our ... Carl Sagan team
... if you would like to ___ :-)

I .... would like to say Hello and thank you to the following __ 67 __ people who were kind enough to: Crunch for Carl Sagan.


thank you very Much and Best Wishes to all

--- 1) Dalkin
--- 2) Dom
--- 3) Jeanette
--- 4) Diego =-Mav3rik-=
--- 5) Kreell Keiser
--- 6) Richard
--- 7) Maurice Field
--- 8) Abraxas
--- 9) Psychokiller
-- 10) Daniel
-- 11) spudboy
-- 12) electronic.mayhem
-- 13) default
-- 14) Jay Albrecht
-- 15) Lance
-- 16) Lukasz
-- 17) Billy Chaplin
-- 18) Ken Baker
-- 19) Gail Church
-- 20) wpgjim
-- 21) mdpagel
-- 22) TikiPowered
-- 23) ESHWAR
-- 24) PeterD
-- 25) Peddler
-- 26) DeWayne
-- 27) Deal McCallum
-- 28) Reznix
-- 29) John
-- 30) bo
-- 31) Alberto J. A. Gomez
-- 32) Krystal Sellick
-- 33) James
-- 34) Milkman
-- 35) Michael J Eckert Sr
-- 36) paul hobby
-- 37) XpucTo
-- 38) BlackGoose05
-- 39) skyblues
-- 40) dreardon
-- 41) Linda
-- 42) Rob Anderson
-- 43) Sof
-- 44) Cody Alan Haller
-- 45) Guido P M D
-- 46) Jim
-- 47) Aparicio
-- 48) RoadHog
-- 49) Spectrum
-- 50) KB7RZF
-- 51) Lars Wille
-- 52) Steven H.
-- 53) Byron Leigh Hatch
-- 54) Audio
-- 55) BoincSpy
-- 56) Jay Blum
-- 57) Admare
-- 58) Analyzer
-- 59) Bero
-- 60) Brian Carter
-- 61) Jimbo_Lewt
-- 62) Ken Baker
-- 63) Robert E. Rowe
-- 64) Bluesman
-- 65) Andres Teodorico
-- 66) Denis Gay
-- 67) johnstevencobb


67 .... people from ... 19 ... different countries


-- 1) Argentina
-- 2) Australia
-- 3) Brazil
-- 4) Bulgaria
-- 5) Canada
-- 6) Croatia
-- 7) Denmark
-- 8) Germany
-- 9) Greece
- 10) India
- 11) Ireland
- 12) Netherlands
- 13) Poland
- 14) Slovenia
- 15) Spain
- 16) Switzerland
- 17) United Kingdom
- 18) United States
- 19) Venezuela


Thank you to all of those who have joined so far, and thank you for concidering joining our team.

Jeremy

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Bumping up, again. :-)

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Bumping again. Come join us. :-)

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And another bump.

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We are up to 69 people!! Very awesome!! Thank you to all who have joined!! Keep crunching!!

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This is a GREAT team!

Mr. Sagan sure was a GIANT to me when I was a kid!

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WOOHOO 70 people crunching for us. How awesome!! Keep up the good work everyone, and thank you for joining our team.

Jeremy

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Kickin the thread up a notch here. :-) Thank you to all who have joined our team. This is for a great person. Crunching in memory of such a wonderful guy is such a wonderful feeling. Feel free to join our team. :-) Crunch, in the memory of Carl Sagan.

Jeremy

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Alrighty folks. We are up to 70 people. Thats awesome. I thank all of you who have joined the team. I'm not sure how often Byron comes over here, but I'm sure he would be thrilled.

Those that are looking for a team, concider joining us. Crunch in memory of Carl Sagan.

Jeremy

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Bump.

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71 people!! Excellent!! Thank you all for crunching for the team.

Jeremy

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Way to go guys. 70 is a good number.

We are sitting on 11 at the moment....lol

All high quality of course. :-)

Way to go guys. 70 is a good number.

We are sitting on 11 at the moment....lol

All high quality of course. :-)

LOL We're up to 71 now!! WOOHOO :-) And 3.6 million credit. Not bad for our team. :-)

And your team is getting better and better, keep it up man!!

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Way to go guys. 70 is a good number.

We are sitting on 11 at the moment....lol

All high quality of course. :-)

LOL We're up to 71 now!! WOOHOO :-) And 3.6 million credit. Not bad for our team. :-)

And your team is getting better and better, keep it up man!!

We are working on it...lol

Just picked up a couple more on Chess960.

Our ranking is pretty good for such a small team. :-)

Ok, time for another bump. Lets keep crunching Team. :-)

Jeremy

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And yet another BUMP! :-)

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Bumping.

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Come crunch for our team. Crunch in memory of Carl Sagan. :-)

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October 17, 2006

Lisa Chu-Thielbar
Science Communications
SETI Institute
650-960-4540

CARL SAGAN CENTER FORMED TO STUDY LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE

Mountain View, CA– The Carl Sagan Center for the Study of Life in the Universe is being established at the SETI Institute in Silicon Valley to sustain a long-term commitment for research into age-old questions such as, "Are we Alone?"

"Understanding the origin, evolution and distribution of life in the universe, a field often called Astrobiology, is one of the most important endeavors of the science community and all humanity," said SETI Institute Trustee and Nobel Prize winning scientist Baruch Blumberg.

The Sagan Center was conceived by Scott Hubbard, the Carl Sagan Chair at the SETI Institute and visiting scholar at Stanford University. "It is our intention to create new partnerships and seek new sources of funding, including private philanthropy, to weather the cycles inherent in the governmental funding process,’’ Hubbard said.

"The proposed 50-percent cut in the NASA Astrobiology budget for 2007 is a clear reminder of how volatile government support for science can be,’’ said Hubbard, former director of NASA Ames Research Center. "Our immediate goal is to raise $4-6M over the next 3 years so that we can sustain our top researchers. The longer term vision is to establish endowed chairs and create additional laboratory capabilities," Hubbard stated. As the Sagan Chair, Hubbard will provide ongoing strategic guidance for the new Center.

Since its founding in 1984, the SETI Institute has probably been best known for its radio searches for signals from other cosmic intelligence. "However, our mission has always been to explore, understand and explain the origin, nature and prevalence of life in the universe," said Tom Pierson, the Institute’s CEO.† "Since the Institute’s inception, our work has included all aspects of research into life beyond Earth."

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When federal funding for SETI research was cut in 1994, Pierson said, "We were able to continue our search by enlisting private sector support. With the Sagan Center, we plan to do the same for the broader study of life in the universe."

The Carl Sagan Center is staffed by approximately 50 principal investigators, and boasts new, state-of-the-art facilities at the Institute’s Mountain View, California, headquarters. Frank Drake, former Dean of Natural Sciences at UC Santa Cruz and a member of the National Academy of Sciences, serves as the administrative director of the Sagan Center.

The Sagan Center’s broad spectrum of research includes such topics as the study of organisms able to thrive in extreme environments, missions to explore Mars and the moons of Jupiter for life, either existing or extinct; and new searches for extrasolar worlds that might be similar to Earth.

"We believe that the search for life in the universe is a multi-generational activity that requires a institutional commitment for the long haul," said Greg Papadopoulos, chairman of the SETI Institute Board of Trustees and chief technology officer and executive vice president of research and development for Sun Microsystems. "We are delighted to have the Sagan Center as a key part of our Institute."

Carl Sagan, world-renowned astronomer, planetary scientist and communicator of science, was a member of the SETI Institute Board of Trustees at the time of his death. Sagan inspired a generation of young people through his well-known Cosmos television series, the motion picture Contact and many books.

"Carl would have been thrilled that this new center, devoted to pursuing the scientific questions that fascinated him most, will bear his name", said Sagan's widow and long-time collaborator, Ann Druyan.

The SETI Institute and the new Carl Sagan Center are located at 515 N. Whisman Road in Mountain View California and may be contacted through media@carlsagancenter.org.

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