<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><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 lang="EN-US" class=""><div class="gmail-m_-2418184136617354335WordSection1"><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div><i class="">To reduce latency and minimize intercommunication energy use.</i><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4" class="">That would explain why you'd make one region dense with </font></div><font size="4" class="">computronium <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">but why make another region less dense? Why is it better if its lumpy?</div></font></div><div class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></div></div><div class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4" class="">John K Clark </font></div></div><div class=""> </div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div>One group of the aliens probably imposed tariffs on another group, leading to economic inefficiencies...</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Tara </div><br class=""></body></html>