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Hi! I'm a 24 years old male from Antwerp, Belgium (the country of the chocolate-eaters :) ). I've studied Human Sciences, and started university (filosophy and moral sciences), but did not finished that, because I had a job offer I couldn't refuse: IT. As it is my major hobby, I know a lot about computer hardware (I was the typical kid demounting radios), and software.
I'm also very interested in other sciences, especially (astro)physics and Egyptology. It was in a book written by the very underestimated Stephen Hawking that i've read about the SETI project. So it was an excellent opportunity for me to run the client to help science, and for myselve to try to push that little bit more power out of my CPU's.
Some other interests of me: reading, listening to music (mostly gothic music, like 'Lacrimosa' or 'Within Temptation'), and playing music myself (I've got a couple of synthesizers and stuff, a bass guitar (for playing blues) and a didgeridoo (for dreaming away)).
At the moment, I'm trying to build a cluster computer running on a re-compiled Debian-version, and when I get things to work, it should have 8 or more nodes (each a Pentium 3 866Mhz with 512 MB of RAM). Till that, I'm trying a couple software configurations on Windows as well as Linux (mostly Mandrake, somethimes SuSe).
This is in fact my fathers computer running the client with my oldest account!
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I believe that extraterrestrial life exists. It should exist, as we see how many stars and solar-systems there are. And that is only the top of the mountain we see. On the other hand that's also a irrecoverable disadvantage, as there are so many of them!! Where do we have to look? And how, and when? Therefore, I do not really believe we will find ET in the nearby future (even not in, let's say, 1000 years, as technology progresses at the rate it does now). Maybe our whole scientific method (or 'metaphysics') is wrong. I mean, we can build huge supercomputers, but they're actually doing the same as your pocket-calculator! (ok, a lot faster, but it's the same!) Studying the fundaments of phisics might give us other options to look for.
Maybe we can send out a beacon with the message "stay away!". Look at our own planet, we're completely wrecking it up! (sorry, but I'm really that pessimistic)
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