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Sylvia Else wrote:
> 
> On 31/12/2016 6:05 PM, The Starmaker wrote:
> > Sylvia Else wrote:
> >>
> >> On 31/12/2016 3:21 PM, The Starmaker wrote:
> >>> Sylvia Else wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> On 31/12/2016 6:19 AM, The Starmaker wrote:
> >>>>> lets say you travel back in time in a time machine and your
> >>>>> time machine lands on your grandfather and kills him...
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Time Travel Is Not Possible.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Any answers you give saying time travel is possible would
> >>>>> be...absurd answers.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> i don't want to hear absurd answers like you come back in
> >>>>> unproven paralell universes where your father and grandfather
> >>>>> still exist...
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> i don't want to hear it!
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Why not? You're effectively saying that the Universe has a
> >>>> particular form, one in which your proof works. That's akin to
> >>>> a circular argument. Maybe the universe does have such a form,
> >>>> and time travel really is impossible, but you have no proof of
> >>>> that.
> >>>>
> >>>> Sylvia.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> I would say by now somebody in the far future would be here
> >>> now...
> >>>
> >>
> >> That's a different argument. But maybe the reason no time traveller
> >> from the far future has come here is that there is no far future
> >> from which to come - civilisation wipes itself out - humans become
> >> extinct due to natural disaster, etc.
> >>
> >> Sylvia.
> >
> > Where did you get this idea "civilisation wipes itself out", and
> > "humans become extinct"? a crystal ball??
> >
> 
> They're merely possibilities. Since they are possible, you cannot use
> the non-existence of time travellers from the future as proof that time
> travel is impossible.
> 
> Sylvia.

So, you actually believe that it is possible that a whole "civilisation" can be wiped out?? How??? Can you give an example?


Also, I don't see any signs of 'humans becoming extint', ...what signs do you see, Mrs Else?