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| Personal background |
I just started my study of Physics at the University of Amsterdam.
I am also very interested in computers so when I came to Amsterdam to study physics I did a double first year: Physics and Computer science. Computer science was fun but I noticed it should remain just a hobby and not a study. The colleges about the stars in the first year were especially interesting. So much fun I don’t know what I am going to choose; lucky I still got time to choose. So I might end up in a different direction then I thought.
On the computer I like to play online games, specially TFC and planetarion. TFC is a half-life mod where teamwork is required, because everybody is class with special strength but also weaknesses. So you need to cover up each others' weakness to be successful. Planetarion is an online strategy game where the goal is to steal as much asteroids as possible from your enemies. The reason I play so many online games is that you meet so many different people. My intentions are not to be the best but to have fun. To meet people I chat a lot in IRC and ICQ with fellow gamers. There we help each other out with advice, software, and cracks or just to listen.
Another hobby of me is teaching judo to kids. It started by helping my brother, who is full time judo teacher, at Saturday with teaching. Helping with teaching is nice but teaching yourself is even more fun so I obtained a judo-teacher diploma and now I teach kids judo at Saturday so my brother can be at the competitions. To guide ”our” kids at the competitions.
The name Werk Het Lekkere Biermerk means, "Work the tasty beer brand". This comes from a holiday with most of the first year students where we needed to perform something, so we thought of beer. With this sentence words like: Overworked, Homework, Work break get a whole different meaning. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
At the earth we got such a variety of living things that in the last 50 years we found life in places we thought no creature could life there. For instance bacteria which life at temperatures up to 100 degrees Celsius and plants and fish which life deep in the ocean from the volcanic energy. The fact is that life is there where it is given the slightest change.
Therefore the question should not be ”Is the human alone in the universe?” but rather “What kind of life can we expect out there“. Of course we all dream about dominion and klingon or more creatures from star trek but I am sure the first extraterrestrial life we find will be simple bacteria. I think we might encounter intelligent extraterrestrial life some day but that will take a while. Sure the change is so small for a creature to develop intelligence, but the universe is so huge that there almost has to be intelligent extraterrestrial life.
Some people say: “Why bother?” Well the question, which we try to solve, is a very old one. Besides mankind didn’t become so “advanced” by answering questions with “Why bother?”! Instead he tried to find new answers to questions, which are not solved yet. So he could understand his world around him to ultimately determine what his place is in the universe and where it will lead.
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