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by: Andrew McDowell - Sat, 8 Apr 2023 14:40 UTC

The physicist Sabin Hossenfelder has a YouTube channel, and her latest episode is "I think faster than light travel is possible. Here's why." Mostly she explains and argues against the usual arguments from special relativity, with a passing suggestion that although she doesn't believe that the recent UFO observations are extraterrestrial aliens, it can't be completely ruled out, and that her solution to the Fermi Problem is that we are too boring.. I usually find her quite entertaining. Possibly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-jIplX6Wjw will work.

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by: Des - Sun, 9 Apr 2023 20:53 UTC

On Saturday, April 8, 2023 at 3:40:36 PM UTC+1, Andrew McDowell wrote:
> The physicist Sabin Hossenfelder has a YouTube channel, and her latest episode is "I think faster than light travel is possible. Here's why." Mostly she explains and argues against the usual arguments from special relativity, with a passing suggestion that although she doesn't believe that the recent UFO observations are extraterrestrial aliens, it can't be completely ruled out, and that her solution to the Fermi Problem is that we are too boring. I usually find her quite entertaining. Possibly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-jIplX6Wjw will work.

I saw it yesterday and liked her solution to Fermi, its similar to Terry Bisson's in his short story "They're made out of Meat", my all-time favorite solution, which he made available free of charge. https://web.archive.org/web/20190501130711/http://www.terrybisson.com/theyre-made-out-of-meat-2/

Like you, I enjoy her articles.

Subject	Author
Semi-OT - In defense of FTL	Andrew McDowell
Re: Semi-OT - In defense of FTL	Des