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| Personal background |
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A computer fanatic. There's no denying that. Got my first PC around 1982, an upgraded Sinclair ZX-80/81, which I traded in for a ZX-Spectrum soon after that. I Learned to program in BASIC on those. Later, on my first PC (self-assembled 80286), partially self-taught Pascal, and later Delphi programming.
After having studied Technical Computer Sciences in The Hague (Netherlands) from 1994-1996, I have worked as a systems administrator and telecommunications engineer for several years.
In 1997, I moved to Bolivia, where I got married in 1998. In 1999, our son was born. In 2002, we will move / moved back to Holland (depending on when you read this). Those interested can have a look at http://www.dbijen.dds.nl/, which I try to keep updated, though some pages are over 5 years old.
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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"In an infinite Universe, anything is possible" (late Douglas Adams, in one of his "Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy" books). One of the amazing things about life, is the places it puts up with living in (and I'll stop quoting Mr. Adams now, I think). On Earth alone, life can be found in the most extreme environments. There are very few places (if any) on Earth where no life exists; our "utterly insignificant little blue-green planet" almost overflows with life in various forms. Recent discoveries keep scientists amazed about how planets are formed, while for decades we thought we had things figured out pretty well.
There are bilions of stars in our galaxy, and that there are bilions of galaxies grouped in clusters, and bilions of clusters grouped together in super-clusters, so we may safely assume that life exists on other planets, probably in many different stages of evolution.
"Should humans transmit a beacon for others to find?"
We've been transmitting our messages straight out into space for decades now, in the form of TV programs and phone calls. These signals are already well underway, traveling out in all directions from earth. If there's someone out there that's going to be able to pick those signals up, that someone will probably have the ability to send out the same kind of signals (radio-waves), and might also be sending out signals, either on pupose, or "accidently".
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It is known that there is an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by zero is as near to
nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination.
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