As for me, the door to the imagination was opened by reading science fiction novels, mostly by Issac Asimov and Thomas Heinlein, in my teens.

There is a world like us, just like us, somewhere out there in the universe.

My imagination grew as the SF writers described and depicted, and I got interested in science as a whole and in astronomy specifically.

By the time I entered high school, I found out that searching another world through SF Novels is not the right way, and that there's a real way and I tried to follow it quite a while.

There are lots to talk and show, but I'll stop here.

(October 17, 2002)