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In this month's Nebula exclusive, big alien theory, we're asked at the reason alien civilizations might be rare is because most aliens are huge.

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Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to your SFAA live stream Q&A monthly event.

We're just going to ahead and get right into questions in a second.

For upcoming events, we'll discuss them more on the break at the half hour mark,

but we will be having a discord session right after

this for live chat for any questions you miss and go ahead and start getting those

questions and now try to keep them as neat as possible and we'll start getting to

them we do have a couple of them to begin with right from the get-go and we'll go

go ahead and get started Albert Albert Jackson asked, space fighters are

soon to be useless. As to my understanding, they are not. Would there be any situations in a space

war where an engagement between two factions fighters would occur? It's not the idea that a space fighter

is necessarily a useless object. It's more the idea that a space fighter is necessarily a useless object.

It's more the idea that a human piloting one is not going to be of a lot of good.

Everything you're doing in space, there's no aero, there's no hills, there's no mountains.

So even those weapons that aren't light speed, like a laser or a directed energy weapon,

are not going to have an easy time missing. There's really no way to spook them too well.

And most of the ways you'd avoid that are by doing very high acceleration maneuvers. And

realistically, to dodge a laser beam, you know, talking about trying to engage someone a couple

hundred kilometers at most, and that from even then you need to do like 100G bonds, you're just not going to do that

with a human.

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