About Me:
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I am an astronomer. I am working on my master thesis at İstanbul University. My thesis is about Open Clusters. At the same time, I teach astronomy to children at a private institution.

I have also organized several astronomy related events including Yuri's Night space parties in İstanbul.

I am an amateur guitar player. I play guitar in a Classical/Prog Rock band. We are teribble but it's okay. Because we have fun. :)

I always feel myself as a world citizen. I never care people's religious, nationalities, political views or sexual orientation. I am an open-minded person. I am trying to respect all living species.

PHILOSOPHY:
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“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I think, this platform is awesome for meeting new people and culture!

Interests

Astronomy, Astrophysics, Science, Stargazing, Human Spaceflight History, Ancient Cities, Music (I am really interest 70's progressive rock bands), Concerts, Guitar playing, hiking/trekking, travelling, Science Fiction books and shows/movies, beat generation.

• books
• concerts
• music festivals
• film festivals
• partying
• cartoons
• movies
• traveling
• music
• live music
• guitar
• hiking
• astronomy
• history
• science
• cultures
• trekking
• doctor who
• festival
• astrophysics
• skepticism
• monty python
• carl sagan

Music, Movies, and Books

My favorite writers:

Douglas Adams, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jules Verne, Stephen King, Arthur C. Clarke, Carl Sagan, Richard Feynman, Richard Dawkins, Neil Gaiman, Stefan Zweig, Stanislaw Lem, Arkadi & Boris Strugatski, Terry Pratchett, Jack Kerouac, Ray Bradbury, George Orwell, Ursula K. Le Guin, Michael Ende, Ferhan Şensoy, Yuval Noah Harari, Michael Shermer, Jack London, William Golding etc...

www.goodreads.com/serkanyildiz

Musics:

Blues, Jazz, Fusion, Classic Rock, Hard Rock, Progressive Rock, Progressive Metal, Metal, Art Rock, Space Rock etc.

You can check and listen my music list on spotify.
https://open.spotify.com/user/11122919671

Movies:

You can always check my imdb account: http://www.imdb.com/user/ur19930968/

Countries I’ve Visited

Germany, Poland

Countries I’ve Lived In

Turkey