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I'm Alex, a college student hailing from the ecological hotspot known as California. At one time or another, I've been mistaken for a computer science major, design major, engineering major and probably others too. But no, I'm working towards my bachelors degree in evolution and ecology at the University of California (UC) at Davis and eyeing grad school sometime in the not too distant future. I work for the school's newspaper and for an ecology lab on campus, jobs that I enjoy a lot and am quite fond of.
Listing hobbies is a bit repetitive, but I might as well, it's traditional and it's what I do during what little free time I have:
I run whenever I can, I used to be able to run marathons (the whole 26.2 miles) but I haven't done that in years.
I love photography, and I wish I could do it more often and have the money for the lenses I want.
I recently started collecting insects since the little buggers are so darn cool that I can't wait to get them into my kill jar. I know, it's an odd way of thinking about them but it's true.
And of course, I love to read, but I don't get to do it as often as I would like. I read novels mainly, and scientific papers sometimes. Yes, I can read papers casually, it depends on the paper but there's a lot of interesting stuff out there. I love reading about science in general, not particularly specific to any science but it's all good stuff. I love the physical sciences as much as the biological sciences, I just know a lot more about the biological sciences since I take classes in them. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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| I'm not sure how to start with this. The Earth orbits one star out of the billions that make up this galaxy, and there are countless other galaxies in this universe. The probability of just one star containing a planet that could support life, let alone evolve sentient life, is probably incredibly small, but multiply that with the sheer numbers of stars and galaxies out there, I don't think the chances seem that bad. I'm not sure if we'll detect an alien message within my lifetime, but it doesn't hurt to try. My computer has tons of unused computer cycles, so might as well invest it on something that could lead to one of the most profound discoveries in human history. |
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