Re: There is no such thing as a Fermi Paradox

  FromTheRafters wrote:
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JTEM formulated on Sunday :

  FromTheRafters wrote:
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Anything can follow from a false premise.

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You can throw anything into a pot of water and make soup.
But if you want chicken soup then you have to put in
chicken. We're distinguishing a paradox here, when you
replied.
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A paradox is self cancelling. It prevents itself. Again,
the Grandfather Paradox where the action prevents the
action. By doing it you can't do it.

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Like many so-called paradoxes, it is not a paradox.

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Nah. That's just your narcissism speaking.
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Nothing wrong with that. Everyone is narcissistic at least
part of the time. You just abuse the privilege.
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It is a 'would be' paradox if we actually could travel back in time.

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There's nothing that excludes the possibility. The paradox
is meant as "Proof" against it, but as we are all familiar
with concepts such as Simultaneity/the Multiverse we can't
write it off.
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There are certainly theoretical means for time travel.
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BACKWARDS time travel. We know how to advance forward in
time at accelerated rates. It's all about moving BACK
because then we get into the fun stuff:  Causality!
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BACKWARDS time travel, working off the top of my head,
always involves things like moving faster than light,
some type of exotic matter or employing wormholes.
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I'm sure I'm missing something.