<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 4:47 PM, Stuart LaForge </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:avant@sollegro.com" target="_blank">avant@sollegro.com</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> wrote:</span><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><br><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="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="gmail-"><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">
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​> ​</div>Maybe the aliens aren't expansionist.<br></blockquote></span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​</div><font size="4">They're expansionist enough to take apart an object the size of Jupiter and use the matter in it to build an energy generating structure around an entire star, but apparently not expansionist enough to go one step further!  They must have Nanotechnology so why isn't the entire Galaxy engineered?  OK so perhaps the Tabby's star<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ ​</div>ET's are just shy weirdos, but if we have really found something like a Dyson Sphere so close to <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​the ​</div>Earth just by looking at one very small patch of sky then hundreds of thousands or millions of other civilizations in the Galaxy must have that technology too; is every single one of them also a <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​shy ​</div>weirdo? </font></div><div> </div><div>On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 12:05 PM, Rafal Smigrodzki <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rafal.smigrodzki@gmail.com" target="_blank">rafal.smigrodzki@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:</div><br><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="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="gmail-"><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"></blockquote></span><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​> ​</div>### In thirty five years I will be probably frozen at Alcor.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4">​Me too.</font></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4"><br></font></div></div><div><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">  John K Clark​</div> </font></div><font color="#888888"><br></font></div><br></div></div>