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| Personal background |
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It was in the year 1531 AD that circumstances allowed it for a tiny infant to see the light in the centre of the city we now know as Amsterdam, capital of the Netherlands. That infant would grow up to be a person of such magnitude that he would rock the world on it's foundations. Obviously I was not that person. (I really doubt if anyone at that time from there actually left a real impression ;)
Born in a canal-house, also in the centre of Amsterdam in 1979, I saw the first light of dawn. There I spent the first four years of my tiny little life untill my parents pulled me away. Apparently they didn't think that heavy traffic and piles of dog-shit on the sidewalks were a suitable playground for a little kiddo like me.
The new outskirts in west Amsterdam became my residence for quite some time and I lived a normal life there and met many other kiddo's of the same age. The result was a lot of soccer playing, street hockey, and checking out the new 8086 XT, your best friend's parents had bought. It was the era ruled by "Digger" and "Conquest"
Now that I think of it. I believe it was back then that things started to get out of control. Then... or maybe when the first episodes of Kings and Spacequest appeared. Anyway... pc's ended up comsuming most of my lifetime so far and it's not untrue to say that it almost caused me to drop out of highschool which I just managed to get through in the end. But for sure it was responsible for me bailing out of college twice. But hey! What is Biology and Industrial design compared to pc's?
So it appeared to be that I was going to be stuck with the wretched machines at least up to the point where I'm writing this now but I did manage to turn the curse called pc's into a blessing. Boy oh boy! You can make buckets full o' money with even a slight affinity with these things... Then again I myself don't make THAT much money, but maybe that is because I don't try hard enough. Tadah! The story of my life *sheepish grin*. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Ah... First of all. I don't believe that we'll ever have a close encounter with any alien species any time soon nor do I estimate that the odds will be high at that in the far future. Now please re-read that and notice that I don't believe in it. That does not mean that I totally discount the possibility.
For starters this already presents a small reason for me to run SETI@home. An attempt to prove myself wrong, but really... the main reason for me joining this venture is because the whole setup and idea of SETI@home is nice. Just imagining millions of computers over the world crunching SETI@home-numbers and me being part of it. It's one of the few things I've seen so far on this planet where people actually work together to achieve something and that... is nice.
Still it seems a rather futile atttempt to me. I start thinking about how huge this mind-boggling big universe is and come to the conclusion that; YES, there must be other intelligent life-forms out there, but the chance that any of those species might just be in range of our own communications systems now and in the future seems so highly unlikely that I start getting the feeling that we'll never meet that far neighbour of ours.
To conclude my long monologue; when I watch series like Start Trek Voyager that seem to base their Sci-Fi technologies on scientific theories of our real world, I do hope that one day we will be able to have things like warp-capable ships, subspace communication channels with a range of a lotta light years and friendly neighbours that drop buy for a cup o' cappucino. Maybe in my above statements I'm just to pessimistic. Look at Jules Verne, for example, travelling to the moon or deep into the sea. Things people would have discounted back then for sure. Labelled impossible, laughed at, read purely as a way to escape daily routines and yet we all know now that it is all too possible. Oh well... I rest my case.
Best regards,
Emagica |
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