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My name is Oliver Krüger.
I'm a student at the University of Hamburg. I'm studying "Meteorologie" or so called "atmospherical physics"/meteorology. I like this topic. It is interesting to learn about our atmosphere we're living in.
I grew up on a farm. So the weather always played a big role(and still does it...) for my dad and us. That's why I wanted to study this. I got closer to this topic in school where we learned something more about the weather. Then I startet to get up early in the morning to collect the temperature and the amount of water that had fallen down.
I did this for a period of two months. Then it got colder(winter, you know) and it still was dark in the morning. Nevertheless I never lost my favor for weather and began to read a lot about it.
Last April, when I finished school, I wasn't sure what to do. Originally I wanted to become a teacher for mathematics and physics. But at this time I was pretty sure of not becoming something like this because for two years I worked as a teacher that helped other pupils to reach better results in school. This job made fun when I saw any good results. Often it was very strenous. But it was a great possibility to learn for myself, to realize that I didn't want to become a teacher and to earn money respective to finance my car.
Well, I was unsure. Then I saw my books about the weather again and I knew that I wanted to learn much more about the atmosphere and its phenomenoms. My physics-teacher(I was in the advanced course) encouraged me to become a meteorologist(he taught us a lot about thermodynamics...). So I decided to study this.
The ironical fact about my decision is, that I would have been able to study this without having great results(it is quiet unpopular) in my school-leaving examination("Abitur") - I was the best in my school, I would have been able to become everything - but now I was determined to learn this and to do research about something that we're living in.
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Extraterrestrial life.
I am pretty sure, something like this exists. The answer is relatively easy: There are billions of stars with millions of planets and thousands of earth-similar ones. The probability of extraterrestrial life is there, I know.
When I was a child, I loved Star Trek(I still do and Stargate too...). I was fascinated about the unimaginable size of the universum.
In summer 2003 I got a new computer. I knew I wouldn't be able to use this power for the whole time(you know, listening to music, surfing in the Internet...). So I decided to run SETI@home to do something useful.
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