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Sylvia Else wrote:
> 
> On 3/01/2017 5:19 AM, The Starmaker wrote:
> > Sylvia Else wrote:
> >>
> >> On 2/01/2017 4:07 PM, The Starmaker wrote:
> >>
> >>>> The Earth has been hit by large objects in the past, causing mass
> >>>> extinctions.
> >>>
> >>> Oh oh, here comes the "What happen to the dinosaurs?" theories...i thought you had more
> >>> intelligence thab that...i guess I over estimated you...you are a girl.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> It's not beyond the bounds of possibility that such a thing
> >>>> could happen again, and be severe enough to wipe out the human race.
> >>>
> >>> every single person, right?
> >>
> >> Why not?
> >
> >
> > You never heard of...survive?
> 
> In an episode of "Dinosaurs" a school teacher explained that there will
> always be more of an endangered animal species, because that's what
> "more" means.
> 
> Is that your manner of thinking here?
> 
> >
> >
> > Your logic says there are no time travlers because the comet killed
> > them.
> >
> 
> No it's doesn't, and I'm having a hard time understanding why you've got
> this so muddled.
> 
> The point at issue is not whether there are no time travellers for this
> reason, nor even whether time travel is possible. The focus is on
> whether your purported proof of the absence of time travel is valid.
> 
> I'm offering alternative scenarios that explain the absence of time
> travellers even if time travel is possible. These possible, even if
> unlikely, scenarios invalidate your proof which depends on the
> impossibility of time travel being the only possible explanation for the
> absence of time travellers.
> 
> Sylvia.


Maybe your problem is...with the words..."not possible", and you use...'it is possible'.


Your "alternative scenarios" are based on...probability. And, "probability" is a math term, and math is not science.

Math is not reality.

I'm not interested in...probabilities.