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

On Thu, 17 Apr 2025 15:45:22 -0400, JTEM <jtem01@gmail.com> wrote:

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.

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Random. Typical.

Thoughless noise.  Typical.

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

Putting aside for the moment your misunderstanding of "contradictory",
the point you conveniently ignore is that star-traveling
civilizations, if they exist, almost certainly rise and fall; just ask
Asimov.

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.

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

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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.

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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.
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THAT is a paradox.

THAT is one of many types of paradoxes:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox>

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

You and Casanova have the same fantasy about being an authority on the
meaning of words.

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