Re: Let's all point & laugh (Fermi Paradox)

On 4/17/25 4:54 AM, jillery wrote:

On Wed, 16 Apr 2025 00:01:38 -0400, JTEM <jtem01@gmail.com> wrote:
 

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https://youtu.be/T2RNhM0yEFk?feature=shared&t=320
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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...
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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.

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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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