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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Extropy is back! We wanted Max to do the welcome-back, since he paid for it, but that lad is up to his eyeballs in more serious matters. He will likely chime in when he gets a chance. John Klos and ExIMod invited me to do the honors. Soooo…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Come on, me lads, you must have many ideas which have been bubbling around in your bio-brains for the past several weeks, so let’s have them. It doesn’t need to be heavy thinking. I can let you know what I have been pondering:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Whyyyy is it that Bert was always so stern and humorless, and what did the upbeat cheerful Ernie see in him? Ernie would be better off going cross-species and hanging with the mostly upbeat Kermit the frog.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>That sorta thing. Oh also, I have been trying to get up to speed on something Keith posted on stars in the neighborhood of Tabby’s star dipping, a cluster of them. That one has me thinking overtime. Also trying to get up to speed on the TESS observatory results and keep up with the LIGO progress. Cool!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Your thoughts please?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>