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Hello, i am from Heenvliet, a small village in the vicinity of Rotterdam, The netherlands. I am 31 years of age and i am married and have two daughters. PC's are my main hobby, and i spend a lot of my spare time fixing them, or trying out something new. I have a job in the IT business, as a Systems engineer, meaning i also repair hardware for a living. My second hobby is my motorbike, a 1995 Honda XL-600V Transalp, keeping it in tip-top condition and riding on it a lot.
I joined seti@home in may 1999, as soon as version 1.0 was available. I learned of the project while the beta was still being tested, but i never installed it. I normally have about 5 machines (all my own machines) running S@H simultaneously, ranging from P4 to P1 cpu's. I enjoy the fact that my PC's idle time is being used to try and find an answer to one of the most fundamental questions of our time: "Is there anybody else out there?". |
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I have a strong belief that this planet earth is not the only body in the universe that harbors life. But i do not know whether we are the only INTELLIGENT life or not. S@H may prove that we are not, but i think a good number of years will pass before seti does find absolute evidence of signals from an ET source, if they exist. But i do strongly believe that, in the not too distant future, we will find proof of life, or past life, on other celestial bodies, most likely within our solar system.
We could send out another singal like Frank Drake did in 1974, but i think that before this signal ever reaches interesting parts of our galaxy where life may exist, our species and out technology will have evolved so far (if we ever evolve that far of course) that we will have overcome the seeming limit of the speed of light, and will have travelled much farther than that signal ever could have travelled by that time, and we will have found out with our own eyes if there is (intelligent) life in that part of the galaxy. Yes, I do like star trek, but my opinion is not based on this belief, i simply believe that NOTHING is impossible.
I run seti@home because i enjoy contributing to this project and whatever may result from it. I think the project, at the very least, will give some answers, or even more so, give us more questions to ask about our galaxy and universe. |
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