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From the last frontier of the USA - "The great state of Alaska."

January 2002.

To Members of the Area 52 S.E.T.I team.

I am a member of your Area 52 team and I reside in Juneau Alaska, you may wonder why a yank picked a british team, it was due to the unique name that I found in the top 1000 teams.

Here in Alaska in the city of kodiak (where the big bears live) Nasa has constructed a launch site that was recently used to launch an athena rocket with three military satellites and a student developed satellite from the naval academy. The details of this story can be found by going to www.space.com and selecting the story from the launch history segment.

Many people have wondered what the Alaska permanent fund dividend program provides to Alaskans. Every year since 1980 each Alaskan receives a check from the proceeds of the oil sold by Alaska. This fund has grown to over 30 billion dollars and some of the interest portion is reserved for distribution to its’ citizens, young and old, no resrictions, except you must reside in Alaska.

This is but a small amount of information about our great state. If any of you have questions about our history or any other data, I will be happy to try and answer them for you.