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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Welcome to our monthly live stream.

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Good afternoon everyone and welcome to our monthly live stream for October 2019.

We'll get to questions just a moment and go ahead and put those in the live chat so the moderators can find them and get them logged up and ready for us to answer.

A couple of announcements before we get rolling.

We do have an extra episode coming out this week on Nebula

that you'll be able to see after the rare intelligence episode, which is coming out, sorry,

radio technology episode that's coming out this Thursday at the usual time. And we have a poll running

right now for what episodes we're going to be doing for very early January. I think last I looked, it looked like the moon industrialization complex idea was running at the top,

but the poll will be open for the next, next, let's see, probably close that out next weekend,

I think actually.

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