Profile: Remy Respro SPROELANTS 8363015

Personal background
Dear SETI@home community,
(Kara SETI@domo komunumo)

My name is Remy Sproelants. I'm living in the northern part of Belgium (Flanders), I'm 57 now, happily married and a retired free-lance translator, language trainer and consultant. In a former live, I was an Officer of the Belgian Army (Air Defense i.e. HAWK System Raytheon Co, Engineering and Real Estate Manager). Most of the time I served in W. Germany (former DBR), the US, missions in the Former Yugoslavia (CRO and BiH) and of course in my own country.

But I’m also something else: I am an enthusiastic but realistic Esperanto speaker since 1999. I used to maintain commercial relations by means of the international language in Brazil and in China.
The language is a 119 year young phenomenon (° 1887 Zamenof’s “Unua Libro de la Lingvo Internacia”), that one day might be the and probably the most fundamental, the most
economic, the most democratic solution of communication problems of the
World citizen and indeed for all of us, inhabitants of the beautiful blue planet earth, we, the poor and imperfect terrestrials. (For more details, refer to the websites below).
It's odd that science and SETI in particular, is trying to look for a dialogue with ET's, whilst on our own planet we still have famous language barriers: unfortunately, the Tower of Babel is still standing strong.
Mankind is in dire need of a common, simple, neutral, second language in order to improve the human interoperability and perhaps, one day in the distant or far future, we'll need such a language to communicate in a humanlike way (not with bits and bytes) with friendly or even hostile ET's.
I've nothing against English, but unfortunately that language certainly by no means is the best choice as a real "International Language". We can do better and the solution already exists. All we need to accomplish this are clever, courageous, responsible politicians and world leaders who think ahead.

Perhaps this is a dream, but please, allow mankind to have such dreams and to foster them.
Requesting your highly appreciated elaboration on these ideas I respectfully ask you to bear in mind the wise words of a man called Victor Hugo: “L’utopie, c’est la vérité de demain”

Friendly greetings from Belgium,
(Korajn salutojn el Belgio),

Remy SPROELANTS, Civ Eng
B-3583 PAAL-BERINGEN
www.esperanto.net ( http://www.esperanto.net/info/index_en.html )
Leer gratis een geweldige taal!
Apprenez gratuitement une langue géniale!
Learn a cool language for free!
Lernen Sie mal kostenlos eine phantastische Sprache!
http://www.lernu.net/
www.edukado.net

PS: I just saw it now, but I really appreciate it: you provided the possibility to select ESPERANTO as one of the many "profile" languages. Sincere Congratulations!
When I'll find some spare time, I'll translate my English text into that wonderful language.

Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
Why do I run SETI@home?

Because I belief in the future of mankind and the power of science and teamwork.
Together we'll conquer, divided (i.e. by language barriers) we'll fall

What are your views about the project?

It's a perfect example of human teamwork

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