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| Personal background |
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I was born in Cologne, Germany, 1968, almost one year before the first men landed on the moon. Today I still live in Cologne where I live together with my enchanting wife and a lively little son.
Already as a small child I have been very much interested in astronautics and astronomy. At the age of seven my christmas present was a telescope with 900 mm focal length. I still own this device and use it several times a year to watch the stars. At the age of 13 I learned to program computers and was even more fascinated by these machines.
I also like to read science fiction books or watch Star Trek on TV. But I am not a trekkie. I would never wear a silly dress and waste my time on a Star Trek convention. I do not admire the TV stars. I simply like the stars in the sky and the technologies that bring us closer to them.
So i tried to make out of my hobbies a profession and studied physics and astronomy. My diploma thesis was a steering program for a radio telescope. But today I am working as a Senior Advisor for SYSECA, an IT consulting service company. Unfortunately this has nothing to do with space sciences.
If I would have been born two or three decades earlier, I am sure, I would have helped to get the men to the moon.
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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If you think about a total of 150 billions of galaxies in the universe, each consisting again of about 150 billion stars, it is unlikely that the sun should be the only star where life can be found.
Another question is, what is considered as a living being. Some people say, that objects that can replicate themselves and have a metabolism, are alive. In this sense, stars live, because the fusion is their metabolism and the supernovae cause the birth of new stars in interstellar clouds.
Anyway, I think, that extraterrestrial life exists. And I also believe that extraterrestrial life can be of such a strange form that you propably would not even notice it, if you would stand right before it.
Nevertheless science has to collect facts. And SETI@home helps us to collect some facts about the existence of extraterrestrial life in our cosmic neighbourhood that has the ability to produce strong and meaningful radio signals. And even if we would not find any such signal, at least we have tried to find other forms of life.
I think, nowadays we only have this chance to find it and we should continue to use it. |
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