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| Personal background |
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Hi, my name is Joel Alexander. I live in Sydney, Australia, and have done so all my life. With a group of friends, I used to run SETI@Home on the computers at my high school. However, we gradually lost interest when the teacher who was backing us left the school. I now go to the University of New South Wales, and I recently bought a new computer (a 1.7 GHz processor, which is slightly better than my old 486), so I decided to pick it up again. This computer can do a block in 5 hours, woo hoo!
Um, what else... this June, I will turn 19. I am currently a full-time uni student (desparately seeking a casual or part time job on top of that to pay back my parents for this computer). I like to play my cornet (sort of like a small trumpet), bushwalking, bike riding, reading, computer gaming, playing mahjong... and I'm a trekkie too (and proud of it). I also spend FAR too much of my time helping this year's year 12 with their HSC (NSW High School final exam sort of thingie...)
Well I'd better finish up, then... if I get started, I can rant and rave for hours... |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Extraterrestrial life could certainly exist, however I don't really like the Drake equation. It seems to be to be just 11 or so statistics that Drake just pulled off the top of his head, and since noone knows what goes there, we just make up numbers and then act surprised when it tells us we'll meet an alien race within the next three years.
After having said all that, I still think alien life is possible. "All things are possible, just not all things are probable" is a saying I often apply to a pool table, but it seems to apply here too. (Who was it that said that first, anyway?) |
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