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NotAHamsterAtAll t1_jcvkvfo wrote

Reply to comment by crepesballsoffire in The Fermi Paradox and the Possibility of Intelligent Extraterrestrial Life by Beginning-Court1946

You must be confusing science fiction with reality.
There is no FTL device, even theoretically conceived, that does not require magic.

We knew flight was possible, because birds fly.

FTL has never been shown to exist in nature, and our best scientific theories also prohibit them (unless you add magic).

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crepesballsoffire t1_jcvl4bx wrote

"Heavier than air flight is impossible..."

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NotAHamsterAtAll t1_jcvltm8 wrote

"said local village idiot" - while all intelligent people before even the pyramids of Egypt knew that "heaver than air flight is doable, because birds do it all the time".

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crepesballsoffire t1_jcvm24o wrote

Ah... resorting to insults because you're too closed minded. Got it.

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NotAHamsterAtAll t1_jcvmqyh wrote

Do you think heavier than air flight is impossible?

In any case your logic is flawed:
X stating incorrectly Y is impossible, does not mean Z is possible, even if Z is though to be impossible.

FTL is just pure fantasy at the moment, sorry to say. Keep dreaming though.

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crepesballsoffire t1_jcvnere wrote

Outright ignoring the very real scientific results of the White-Juday Laser Interferometer study. Nice. Yeah, you're real intelligent.

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NotAHamsterAtAll t1_jcvp5r5 wrote

As I said, keep dreaming and hoping.

People doing simple experiments claiming X, Y, Z of impossible things happens fairly often, and they all fail to be reproducible or conclusive.

Nobel Price for anyone out there showing anything even close to FTL being a thing.

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