Re: Fermi's Paradox and FTL drives

In the Year of the Golden Pig, the Great and Powerful Gene Ward 
Smith declared:
> Butch Malahide <fred.galvin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in news:7b9f8296-
> 1fe9-4906-a8d8-72712045e334@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
>> Suppose FTL was invented by space aliens in a faraway 
> galaxy, and they
>> can fly across the universe lickety-split. Would they have 
> had time by
>> now to visit all the stars in all the galaxies?
> 
> They probably have time travel since they have FTL, and can 
> roll their own time. And are they going to be colonizing much, 
> or in some manner expanding their population and resources> If 
> not, why not?

Because instantaneous travel throughout the universe doesn't 
guarantee a civilization unlimited growth, let alone an infinite 
lifespan.

-- 
Sean O'Hara <http://diogenes-sinope.blogspot.com>
The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" 
that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration 
camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is 
conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried and minuted) in 
clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with 
white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do 
not need to raise their voice.
    -C.S. Lewis