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, and welcome to the SFIA monthly live stream Q&A.

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

window so our moderators can start relaying those to me as soon as we start.

Please try to keep the questions concise and watch your spelling and try to be polite to others

in the chat.

We usually go for about an hour so you probably want to grab a drink and a snack, though

we'll take a break about halfway through too.

With all that said, welcome and let's get started.

Good afternoon everybody. We'll be getting started in just a moment here, but as we get through some of the technical difficulties, make sure things actually still going good in the new studio.

We'll be into your question just a moment, so go ahead and start putting those in the chat window for our moderators to go ahead and let us know what's going on and what your questions are.

And she'll be getting, they'll be getting right off today by my wife, Sarah, who is joining us today.

Sarah, say hello.

Hi.

Hopefully with a microphone that's actually working this time.

So we're just waiting for a moment to get some confirmation as to what kind of questions we've got coming in and whether the audio is working. If you aren't too familiar with what's going on for the schedule

this upcoming month, you'll be able to see that in the upper window as we go. And those are the

upcoming episodes we have going on for this upcoming month. If you have missing of our recent ones,

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