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| Personal background |
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I live in Heemstede, the Netherlands, and I'm 37 years old. My work excists of installing and maintaining computer networks and all other appliances and equipment needed to make small business offices run smoothly. This work started as a hobby and later I got the chance to turn my hobby into my work.
Besides this I love to play music (trombone) in a military band: http://www.bandofliberation.nl and listen to my favorite countryband Major Dundee : http://www.majordundee.com
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Why Seti@Home? I think it's important to find out if we're alone in the universe. I don't believe scientists that say life can only excist in similar environments as the one on our Earth (why would there not be methane breathers somewhere?). Are we alone? I don't know. I don't think so. But fact is, it has to start somewhere, e.g. some race has to be the first. Might as well be us. But we never know until we find out so let's keep looking. And why not send out a beacon to let them find us as well. My motto in this: Never stop wondering.
My goal: to find E.T. of course, what else? I hope we find ET in my lifetime; if he's there I think we will. I only hope that mankind is mature enough by then to not immediately think of war and showing their muscles. There can be so many benefits in first contact. Think of progress in technology and what more we can learn from each other. Maybe it will even make us stop and look around to see the mess we made of our world and make us one people again.
The down-side is of course that mankind can get overwhelmed by new technology, new ideas and new cultures. Certain groups of people that grab the opportunity to start new racial disputes.
I'm not afraid that a first contact will turn out to be conquerors. That's a immature idea of mankind. |
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