My Interests

If you have read…
…the earlier pages you hardly can´t have missed my interest in Science Fiction, drawing, painting and so on.

I am glad over that my interest merges with I have and want work with, that is computers and graphics. Because my interest in ”drawing” and ”painting” with computers I haven't lost my "touch" which easily can happen if you don´t use computers and programs needed on daily basis. Thanks to that I have fairly easy to learn how to use and work with new programs. I am really one of those lucky people who have the luxury work with they at the same time call a hobby.

About Science Fiction could I write a lot, but I think it´s better save you from it. What I really like to tell if you are not... well... initiated, are why I think Sci Fi are so fascinating.
I have a true conviction that everything we humans can imagine or fantasize about we will realize sooner or later.
From the ideas in Sci Fi have we seen some things to be realized in both good and bad.
Some writers have been criticized by their contemporaries and a few decades later have the final results and reality some time even exceeded the fantasizes.
One Sci Fi writer we all now was Jules Verne, he wrote about moon travels, TV, nuclear power, submarines and much more before we even had branded stories like his as ”Science Fiction”. Even dough he did not have right all the time, the ideas was there and take a look around, what he wrote is now our reality.

Today when we read books or watch films about gene manipulation, space travels in light speeds, teleportations, nano technology, 3D-television, time travels and much, much more what we now see as imagination, technical or physical impossibilities, will some of this certainly be reality sooner or later.
Some times reality will catch up, and then we have Sci Fi writers to thank for their clear-sightedness, for ideas or warnings about the consequences.
And if my explanation is not enough to make you interested, are Science Fiction really exciting reading, try and you will see.

In later years I had possibility and have been entrusted to create illustrations on nonprofit base to UFO-Aktuellt, Nationwide organization UFO-Sweden´s magazine. They have find use for my pictures in a CD-ROM production, posters and a illustration to the book ”Mötet i gläntan” by chairman, journalist and author Clas Svahn.
In the book he write about ”Pollen King” Gösta Carlsson´s experiences in 1946 in very objective and interesting way.
Just this objective and rational approach is characteristic for UFO-Sweden´s way to work in a area which are difficult and elusive to us all.
Not to mention the ridicule which many of witnesses or interested in the topic can be subjected to. ”-Do you believe in UFO´s?” is a question I have heard many times and my answer has been and are ”-Of course, but so do you too”.
As a common person it´s easy to think about ”UFO´s” in connection with green Martians or in other stereotype forms, and it´s no wonder.
In this area there are and has been persons who don´t hesitate to use this for their own purposes if it is economical or more or less in cult kind of activity.
I choose to be interested in the UFO area in what the shortening stands for and that is Unidentified Flying Objects.
In another words UFO can mean gulls, airplanes, satellites or anything between earth and heaven which can´t be recognized in that moment. That's why we can say that everybody have seen UFO at least ones.
When you have sift out every natural explanation so far it´s possible, will usually couple percentage of cases remain, which no normal explanation can´t be found. This don´t still mean alien crafts from another planet and the observation will be registered as unexplained.
However the opposite have not either been proved, so fare the observations are unexplained they can be secret airplanes, natural or mental phenomena we don´t yet recognize, or why not, aliens in crafts from another planet who are visiting us.
So without rejection or denial are UFO-Sweden working so objectively with this intangible topic as possible and resources allows.

Many people ask me, if I believe in life on another planets. What´s there not to believe? Universe is a big place and odds tells us that there must be plenty of life out there.
But life mean also bacteria, algae's and not just intelligent beings. If we have this in mind, so is there much which seems to indicate life on the planets in our own Solar system.
Mars and Jupiter´s moon Europe has became strong candidates after findings what are believed to be fossilize remains of bacteria in a meteorite from Mars.
If we find life in the Solar system, no matter how primitive it is, increases possibilities to intelligent life in the rest of our galaxy or in the Universe.
Then we can start to ask the question of what kind of life it is, instead if there are life.

The space research have regain speed again after been running little on idle after the Moon program was canceled and Challenger catastrophe happened.
Sometimes we hear, that there are more important things put money in than send a radio controlled car to Mars. It´s better we take those resources to cure world famine or other problems we have.
Mine wholly personally view is that space research should be given even more priority with medicine, physics and so on.
Where can we take the money for that? Well, equally naive answer are all the billions we spend on new ways to kill each other.
Should all this resources as money, technology, Scientists be accessible would we be in whole different situation. Naive, but partly true.

It´s partly thanks to ”spin-off” technology from the space program we have microchips, therefore computers and everything that need microchips to function. Today it´s easier count things which don´t need microchips.
Everything from microwave ovens, digital watches, radio and TV communications, new alloys, textiles and much, much more we use in our daily life are results from the space program.
Should we put even more efforts on space research can we expect new alloys and medicines which only can be made in zero gravity.
Further in the future maybe we begin mining on the moon or even on the asteroid belt instead here on the earth. But like I said, that´s wholly mine personally view.

What more? Cars and motor-sport, I haven´t missed many episodes of Trafikmagasinet and channel 5:s Motorjournalen in later years, I also try to follows BBC World´s Top Gear when I can. Lately has Formula 1 racing which always have been exiting, become even more fun to follow.
I also try to follow the development in technology as much I can through popular Science programs and magazines. Generally I try be some what informed what are happening in the world around me and to have access to Internet are almost a must. Possibility to get information about events in the same second they happen and be able to participate when you have a opportunity are excellent.
A good example was Mars Pathfinder Mission. The information was sheared by millions of people around the world almost in the same instant when NASA got it and still are we in the beginning of Internet development.
Changes happens fast and how Internet looks and works five years from today can we only guess. But to be participated almost from the beginning is to me almost a privilege. It´s exiting times we are living in.

But now I think it´s enough. If you have been reading this far wish I thank you for your interest and I hope you get interchange from this homepages.

With best regards
Kari

”-Don´t promise anything you can´t keep and keep your promises.”
My grandfather.