Profile: miardy

Personal background
Hi,

My name is Minko Dijkstra.
I was born in a town called Sneek. That's in the Frisian part of Holland.
I currently live in a town called Groningen, where I am a networksupervisor for a small company. However, I first got interested in Seti@home long before I made working with computers my job.

I have always been fascinated with outerspace and always found it quite ridiculous that all that space would be occupied with only one species of intelligent life. (seems to be a waste of space if life would exist on only one planet, right ?) It may be that we're the first race to come to this level of technology, or, maybe WE have not yet reached the level of technology to communicate with more advanced species, but TO NOT TRY would make sure that we would fail. So that is why I first joined the Seti@home network. I hoped (maybe against all hope) that we would succeed in reaching out to other forms of intelligent life and I still do.

Personally I don't believe in A (or more) God(s), but if there were, I don't think He (, She or Them) would create all this space (inhabitable planets, universes) for just One species/kind of life.

In any case, I really hope that (through Seti@home) we will find signs of life in the universe. If not by the method used today, then maybe by future methods.
I certainly will continue to support Seti@home, if only by contributing the spare computingpower of my computer.

I am only one person, with only one computer (unlike others who use the computing power of a professional company, or who feel the need to pull resources with other people to get higher in the ranks).
I, for myself, don't care that much for my position in the ranks, as long as the objective is met. The objective being, to find other intelligent life in the universe then just our own (smallminded as our kind may be sometimes).
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
As we are nearing the completion of the current part of the Seti@home project, I hope that this is not the end of it. Should nothing (or something) come out of it, I believe that we should keep searching.

As technology advances, more and more ways of searching become available. Better ways, faster ways, maybe even ways unthought of as of yet.

maybe we'll find other life then just us in the universe, this time, maybe we don't. If we do, then we should try to make contact. If we don't, then we should look for other ways, better ways, of searching. Not until we have tried every way possible, should we consider that we are indeed alone in the universe, and even then should we keep searching.

if not now, then maybe later, we WILL find that we are not alone. And if we DO find that we are alone in this gigantic universe, then it's about time that we try to fill up all those unused places for life to thrife.
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