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From: Mike Van Pelt <usenet@mikevanpelt.com>
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Subject: Re: A New Solution to the Fermi Paradox
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In article <slrnvse8ls.s38.naddy@lorvorc.mips.inka.de>,
Christian Weisgerber  <naddy@mips.inka.de> wrote:
>If you move from A to B in less time than light takes to travel
>that distance, it's FTL.  Doesn't matter _how_.

Also, if you can move from A to B in less time than light takes
to travel that distance, then accelerate towards A, then travel
from B to A in less time than light takes, it doesn't matter how,
you have traveled into the past. 

When that was finally explained to me in a way that I understood
*why*, it was a major "ARGH!" moment.  I want my FTL.  But I don't
believe in time travel into the past.

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