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| Personal background |
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| My name is, as already given, Koen van den Berg. I am 16 years of age at the moment, and I live in The Netherlands, much to my regret. I have lived in Canada for eight years of my life, and arguably the best ones as well. My hobbies are mineral collecting, gaming, archery and filosofizing about anything that is interesting and/or worth some thought. I am still in highschool, and upon completion I hope to complete a study at university and work in the line of Physics or Chemistry. Another one of my hobbies has to do with the latter, which is the fact that I make my own fireworks from raw materials. Apart from that, I'm just your average person whom you could pass on the street. I came in contact with the SETI project through a friend's website, but I already knew about the project for some time. Wat interests me in the project is the prospect of finding proof for intelligent alien life and being a part, however small, of this historic process. Let's face it: every one of us is making history. It doesn't matter who finds it first, it took all of us to get there... |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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| Transmitting a beacon for others to find is one of the best things we can do. It will possibly tell a distant race more about us, and that is always good. Knowledge takes fear away. We should send out as much information as we can. Especially new technologies and how to duplicate them. At least that way we might be of some help to another society, much like ours, that is also searching the heavens and wondering if they are alone. Furthermore, sending something back is really in the spirit of SETI. I mean, if we don't get messages from others, why not be the first to send the messages and hope to get a reply? Any way you look at it, it's better than waiting around for someone else to send something to us, because then we know that we have sent something out, and if we get a 'response' to that transmission with some special characteristics, we only have to verify it and we'll know we are not alone at this moment, instead of knowing that we might be alone again, but that at least we weren't alone in the past. |
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