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 ;-) )