Hello, SFIA audio listeners, 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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Welcome to our September 2019 live stream.

We'll be getting started in just a moment, so go ahead and get your questions in the chat

window, and we'll get you as many as we can today in the next hour or so.

In deference to our moderators trying to pick out questions to relay to me, do try to keep

them fairly straightforward, brief, and legible.

With that said, hopefully you've got a drink and a snack and let's get started.

Good afternoon everyone, we'll get started with our questions as soon as we got some of them in.

And just remember, when we're doing the questions, please keep them concise for everybody who's trying to do the moderation on those.

So they are coming through kind of clear. We often get questions. A little bit illegible.

Just some quick announcements why those get in there. We do have, well, we're save talking about Nebula for when we get to the mid-session break,

but we'll go for about an hour and we'll pause for about three, four minutes right about

in the middle of things so you can grab a drink and a snack and I can grab a drink in a snack.

All right.

So, starting off with questions here.

Are you worried that quantum computers will give historical precedent to developing military applications of technology as a global priority?

You know, it's really hard to say with things like quantum computers, what the actual effect is going to be.

Obviously, the military is pretty interested in its applications.

So is everybody else?

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