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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> spike@rainier66.com <spike@rainier66.com> <br><b>…</b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class=gmail-p2><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>>>… the dust particles are larger than 10^-6 meters and smaller than 2*10^-3 meters. That's pretty small, I can't see any reason a ET engineer would make a computronium node that small…John<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=gmail-p2><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>>…Indeed sir? If they are up in the 1 – 2 mm range I would be puzzled about why they are so big. For a lotta thermodynamic reasons, about .1 mm is right in the zone for computronium…. spike<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=gmail-p2><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>This is waaaaay the heck back here in 2018:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=gmail-p2><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><a href="https://singularityhub.com/2018/03/26/ibms-new-computer-is-the-size-of-a-grain-of-salt-and-costs-less-than-10-cents/?utm_source=Singularity+Hub+Newsletter&utm_campaign=580cc12fa7-Hub_Daily_Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f0cf60cdae-580cc12fa7-57458369#sm.000ugx5p7122e2310qt2dmxu2u0k0">https://singularityhub.com/2018/03/26/ibms-new-computer-is-the-size-of-a-grain-of-salt-and-costs-less-than-10-cents/?utm_source=Singularity+Hub+Newsletter&utm_campaign=580cc12fa7-Hub_Daily_Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f0cf60cdae-580cc12fa7-57458369#sm.000ugx5p7122e2310qt2dmxu2u0k0</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=gmail-p2><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=gmail-p2><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></div></body></html>