<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 12, 2016  Will Steinberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:steinberg.will@gmail.com" target="_blank">steinberg.will@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​> ​</div>Maybe the Intergalactic Counsel only allows one thingy per galaxy.</blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4">​Maybe, but there are 100,000,000,000 stars in our galaxy and Kepler only looked at 145,000 of them, and yet we found it. Boy oh boy are we lucky! </font>. ​</div> </div><div dir="auto" style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​> ​</div>Maybe the *laws of physics* only allow one thingy per galaxy, and two would somehow induce each other's destruction.</blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4">Maybe. And maybe the<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ reason the ​</div>ET's on<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ </div>Tabby's star<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ are so uncommunicative is that they don't exist. ​</div></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> John K Clark</div></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div>