In article <gqbdj2$ipf$1@nntp.motzarella.org>, HVAC
<harlowcampbell@gmail.com> wrote:

"JTEM" <jtem01@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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"K_h" <KHol...@SX729.com> wrote:

Fermi's paradox suggests that there are little or no
other intelligent civilizations within the Milky Way
galaxy.

Hardly.

Fermi's Paradox is itself a paradox. It could be restated
to say, "Assuming that aliens are anything like us,
they can't be anything like us."

If a civilization desires to explore the galaxy/universe
the only logical way is with a form of Von Neumann probe.
...A self-replicating, ever spreading, type of 'life'.

Perhaps *we* are the Von Neumann probe.

Exactly. I'm no Fermi, but I DO understand the argument, and it seems
to me it overlooks one very important point: Somebody has to be first.

-chib

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