Path: ...!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!feeds.news.ox.ac.uk!news.ox.ac.uk!nntp-feed.chiark.greenend.org.uk!ewrotcd!news.eyrie.org!beagle.ediacara.org!.POSTED.beagle.ediacara.org!not-for-mail From: jillery <69jpil69@gmail.com> Newsgroups: talk.origins Subject: Re: There is no such thing as a Fermi Paradox Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2024 01:59:50 -0400 Organization: What are you looking for? Lines: 16 Sender: to%beagle.ediacara.org Approved: moderator@beagle.ediacara.org Message-ID: References: <1qsex7l.1oe4vr217ylr48N%nospam@de-ster.demon.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: beagle.ediacara.org; posting-host="beagle.ediacara.org:3.132.105.89"; logging-data="22228"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@beagle.ediacara.org" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 To: talk-origins@moderators.isc.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:PVCx2WCPfM3jhU2HHcpjk45fiuw= Return-Path: X-Original-To: talk-origins@ediacara.org Delivered-To: talk-origins@ediacara.org id 3DB73229782; Tue, 23 Apr 2024 01:59:36 -0400 (EDT) by beagle.ediacara.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23C74229758 for ; Tue, 23 Apr 2024 01:59:34 -0400 (EDT) id A2C185DC2C; Tue, 23 Apr 2024 05:59:55 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: talk-origins@moderators.isc.org by mod-relay-1.kamens.us (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 822555DC29 for ; Tue, 23 Apr 2024 05:59:55 +0000 (UTC) id 7D4D0DC01CA; Tue, 23 Apr 2024 07:59:52 +0200 (CEST) X-Injection-Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2024 07:59:52 +0200 (CEST) X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX1/qYcqUfY00NAhzLsOVvxilov/SqXDN6+k= Bytes: 2300 On Mon, 22 Apr 2024 19:46:08 -0400, JTEM wrote: >It's not a real question. It's an erroneous assumption. Specify what is the assumption you assume is erroneous? >Now turn it around. Ask instead: WHY would they ever bother >to come here? WHY would they ever bother to go into interstellar space in the first place? Same reasons. -- To know less than we don't know is the nature of most knowledge