Hello, SFIA audio listeners, in this month's Nebula exclusive, big alien theory,

we're asking the reason alien civilizations might be rare is because most aliens are huge.

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Good afternoon, everyone. We'll be leaping into the live stream in just a moment, so please

start getting your questions into the live chat now so we can get to as many as possible

today. We also have started grabbing some questions in advance of the show to avoid any

dead air time waiting on questions or doing audiovisual checks.

So as a heads up for future shows, once we schedule the next live stream, usually a few

days before we do it, you can start leaving questions and comments in the chat.

And also, if we don't get to your question today, feel free to leave it as a comment and

I'll try to get in and answer it afterwards.

With that said, welcome, and let's get to it.

Good afternoon, everybody. We're just going to go ahead and leap right into questions today

with a couple we had from Facebook in advance. Roscoe Douglas asks, might we one day use

some sort of quantum data link between Earth and follow our future vessels, colonies,

or aliens.

One of the problems with the quantum entanglement idea, this kind of this notion that you could

speak to people fast in light by using quantum entanglement is that's not how quantum entanglement

generally works.

There is that spooky action at a distance where things do appear to go faster in light,

but all that's telling you is what the state of that particle is.

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