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T.eslacharth and use my code, Isaac Arthur.

Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to Science and Futures with Isaac Arthur's monthly

live stream Q&A this New Year's Eve, December 31st, 2023.

As usual, we are joined by my co-host and wife, Sarah Fowler, who will be asking questions

from the audience that you put them in of me and I'll try to get my best

answers as we can I think we probably mod free because of the holiday right now so

please try to leave them clear and concise and easy read things so that they don't

get lost in the queue with that said let's go ahead and get started with our first

question well thank you for including me on these for the last several years And I actually wanted to give a shout out first to one of your viewers from Ashtabula County that I ran into in the grocery store over the holiday.

And Marius told me that you were the inspiration to becoming an engineer.

That's one of the cool things about doing the show for years like this is that you, when

I first got started, people would say, hey, I'm thinking about majoring physics, should I do

that?

And now I've got folks who have had me saying, hey, I don't know if you remember this, but like

eight years back, you convinced me a major in physics.

And I just finished up my doctrine.

And that is an awesome experience. So thank you for everyone who has been with us for, we're on our 10th year now, so it's been a long time.

And this is the, we're in six years into doing the live stream, this is our 60th one, and we skipped a few here and there.

So thank you, Marius, and thank you everyone.

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