From: Michael K. Neylon (mneylon@engin.umich.edu)
Date: 2-Mar-95 (19:37:29 GMT)
Subj: Re: Message 6

Ok, my mistake (happens when your translator is a plain
ol' calculator :-).  However, I think the temperature 
unit is well less than .1K.  If it were .1K, then the
first planet's temperature (and the one that 
were assuming that the TCs are on) would be at 439.2K,
which is 166.2 deg C.  I think most biologists agree
that life cannot exist with the presence of liquid
water.  If we assume that the home planet is roughly
at 25 deg C, then a temperatur unit is about 0.068K, giving
the base temperature of space a temperature of 3.06K, and
of the TC star as 33,600K.  

And of course, the intrepretation of ?B?, ], and { 
makes great sense.  I'll even go one further and say
that ?x? represents the xth element.  Therefore, 
maybe ?C? = helium, ?BAB? is carbon, etc...

(Of course, the TCs are using the Bohr model for an 
atom...and I thought that they were advanced ;-) )


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