Federal Funding For Seti@home and Arecibo reciver

We are displeased with the decision to halt funding for the Arecibo Radio Telescope. This telescope collects data for the distributed computing project that started them all; Seti@home. Seti@home is on the leading edge of distributed computing and is testing technologies and methods which will be used for other projects such as Climate Prediction.net and Fight Aids@home (sub-project of world community grid). Without Seti@home these projects would go without progress and would be unable to continue doing the science calculations critical to our success as a country and planet.

Please take some time to consider this issue in its whole context.

Thank you for your time and consideration.