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From: JTEM <jtem01@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Let's all point & laugh (Fermi Paradox)
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2025 15:45:22 -0400
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On 4/17/25 4:54 AM, jillery wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Apr 2025 00:01:38 -0400, JTEM <jtem01@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>
>> https://youtu.be/T2RNhM0yEFk?feature=shared&t=320
>>
>> So we're the first to reach this level of technology, and this
>> level is low on a galactic scale... we're the highest level in
>> the galaxy, being the first to attain this level, and this the
>> most highest level in the galaxy is low in term of the galaxy...
>>
>> Yeah. That about sums it up.
> 
> 
> Like the origin of life, it's not about who was first.  It is about
> who survived.

Random. Typical.

The statement is contradictory. We can't be both "Low" on a
galactic scale AND the absolute highest in the galaxy.

>> There is no such thing as a Fermi paradox. It's an erroneous
>> assumption. That's all. If I assume you like carrots and you
>> don't, it's not a paradox. That is NOT what a "Paradox" means.

> Of course, what you say it means is willfully stupid, as usual:

We're not arguing here. You either grasp what words means or you
don't, and you clearly do not.

> ***********************************
> a seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that
> when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true.

No. The textbook example of a paradox is the "Grandfather Paradox" in
time travel, where if you go back in time and murder your grandfather
before he had any children, you were never born so you couldn't possibly
go back in time and murder him.

THAT is a paradox.

There is no Fermi "Paradox." There is an assumption that is wrong.
Period.




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