If there are aliens, what will they look like?

[sd455dan]

Mirage or Reality?

Even this newscaster says you shouldn't be able to see Chicago at all from St. Joseph but makes up a condition called atmospheric refraction.
This would indicate this "condition" isn't present all the time so if you are actually seeing Chicago skyline any other time then what?
But wait! Neil deGrasse says you can't witness the curvature of the earth even at 168,000 ft.

Over 600 people have been in orbit, I guess everyone of them are hiding a deep dark secret, that the earth is not round. Even Bill Shatner.

More than 600 human beings have now been to space. (Published 2021)

Three of the four astronauts aboard Crew-3 are making their first trip to space.

www.nytimes.com

You have to be jerking our chains. Right?

 

[MossRoad]

I can explain it again, if you'd like, but I can't understand for you.

 

[MossRoad]

If you're standing on the sand dunes along Lake Michigan, you can see about 20 miles to the horizon.

If you're standing on the top floor of the Willis Tower, you can see about 50 miles to the horizon, 4 states. Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin.

20+50=70.

It's only 60 miles from St. Joseph, Michigan to Chicago.

I have seen the temperature inversion that causes the mirage where you can see the entire skyline floating above the horizon several times. We even saw it twice where it was floating upside down.

Scientific Explanation for Upside-Down Chicago | NOVA | PBS

The city looked upside-down from across Lake Michigan.

www.pbs.org

However, it's a fact, that you can see the tops of some of the buildings directly in Chicago from St. Joseph, MI.

Now will you please knock off this nonsense.

 

[ruffdog]

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Elbert Hubbard

 

[Jstpssng]

I’m not sure who is worse off; the people who keep talking to somebody who doesn’t want to hear it; or those who keep clicking on this thread, thinking there might be something worth reading this time.

 

[MossRoad]

I’m not sure who is worse off; the people who keep talking to somebody who doesn’t want to hear it; or those who keep clicking on this thread, thinking there might be something worth reading this time.

There aren't an fire trucks to follow today....

 

[bcp]

Many read for the entertainment value, not just for knowledge.

Bruce

 

[CalG]

I’m not sure who is worse off; the people who keep talking to somebody who doesn’t want to hear it; or those who keep clicking on this thread, thinking there might be something worth reading this time.

How could ANYONE expect to find something "WORTH READING" in a thread about alien appearance on a tractor forum?

Jeesh! For real?

Expectations are the source of all disappointment.

 

[RoyJackson]

How could ANYONE expect to find something "WORTH READING" in a thread about alien appearance on a tractor forum?

Jeesh! For real?

Expectations are the source of all disappointment.

Easy fix...don't read it...

 

[2LaneCruzer]

I would like to see someone attack it from an anthropological point of view...meaning that the characteristics that enabled humans to reach this point in their evolution, must have application to aliens. Example. Why is the human hand so nimble, and why do we have such dexterity? Answer: Because man is the only "animal" who has survived not so much as genetically evolving to adapt to his environment, but by changing his environment to allow him to survive. The human hand is the ultimate tool making machine. We have it for a reason, and it is designed to make any tool necessary. It, in combination with our shoulders, enables us to swing a club and throw a rock like no other.
I opine that any alien capable of space travel, evolved in a similar manner, where tool making was its key to survival.
Anyone read the book "The Naked Ape"?