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

live stream Q&A. As usual, we are joined by my lovely wife and co-host Sarah Falter author,

who will be taking questions for the moderators, in this case my asker and Sindry,

who will be passing along to you and to Ho to ask me as we get started.

Speaking of which, have we got any questions to get started with?

Yes, we actually have a couple from the last live stream that people felt like you evaded a little bit.

And Maya's will says, you're not going to dodge this question.

So the question is, which is your favorite

alien species design-wise? I remember that one from last time, too. Okay, hmm, there's

many different ways you can have a design way. I can see why I end up dodging that question.

You know, for simplicity's sake, let's go with the Borg from Star Trek, the next generation.

They were actually originally designed to be a bunch of insect, creatures rather a bunch of leather-clad

borg, but they end up doing that for budgetary reasons. They switched them over to being

humans. And that actually, I think, made for a good one because they're a little less alien

than the insects would be. You end up with the assimilating

consuming type of Borg from Star Trek player.

We're just going to come by your planet, take your technology, and then take all of you.

The original version, if you see the first episode of the Q in it, which is probably the

best episode of Q in it, to be honest.

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