If there are aliens, what will they look like?

[JasperFrank]

On the June 21'st we traveled to Europe from the PNW. The sun never set on the plane flight doing its great arch in the North. It was weird to have a day that didn't set.

Its been so fun to see sci-fi "re-discover" the Tardigrades. For modern sci-fi writers there is a two year lag time. it doesn't make them alien that their DNA is so odd. Just that they are also survivors of a few mass extinctions, for which we can find no other genetic codes from, cause those are lost.

 

[oosik]

Flat earth. It's a lost cause. Lets move on to something where folks have a grasp of reality.

 

[Jstpssng]

Flat earth. It's a lost cause. Lets move on to something where folks have a grasp of reality.

Oh, but it's for the kids!

 

[MossRoad]

Flat earth. It's a lost cause. Lets move on to something where folks have a grasp of reality.

Like water dousing.

 

[Jstpssng]

Like water dousing.

Another time when we really, REALLY need that :stirthepot: gif.

 

[tradosaurus]

In your video "proving the rocket hit something" you want us to believe you, yet the same video shows the curvature of the earth which I am sure you will make up some "proof" that it really is not showing that.

Your boy Neil DeGrasse Tyson explaining why Felix Bumgartner, at 168,000 ft couldn't see the curvature of the earth and the video show was a wide angle lens.

How do you explain this?

 

[tradosaurus]

Even in your world, it would have been west, not east.

Which direction does your globe earth rotate? I never can keep the fiction straight.

Point is, which you know, that Felix shouldn't have landed almost the same spot he launched if the earth is rotating at 1,000 mph.

Beam me up Scotty!

 

[tradosaurus]

Know you have me thinking....

Does the flat earth model have an alternative description of the sun?
Or do the sun and stars remain thermo-nuclear balls of Hydrogen/ Helium plasma?

Interesting thought.

I can only explain what the sun and moon are based on Genesis 1:16. The sun is a light and the moon is a light (self luminescent).

Not all flat earth believers are religious, but most are.

 

[CalG]

Which direction does your globe earth rotate? I never can keep the fiction straight.

Point is, which you know, that Felix shouldn't have landed almost the same spot he launched if the earth is rotating at 1,000 mph.

Beam me up Scotty!

trad

The "remaining in one spot " sequence is easily explained by prevailing winds at the time. A fluid medium moving with it's containment. Not different than a fish in a moving stream. With different wind conditions, the landing could be much different.

Around the world in 80 days.

A quick look here
earth :: a global map of wind, weather, and ocean conditions

with the height set to 70hPa Itwill show some interesting air movements and circulations. Winds aloft? Or winds of Fate!

N.B. All depictions on this application show a FLAT world. But what can one expect from a computer screen? ;-)

 

[tradosaurus]

How I know the earth is a sphere.

I set up a theodolite, I went in a straight line for four miles, turned 90-degrees left, went another four miles. Then turned another 90-degrees left, and went four miles. And then turned another 90-degrees left, and ran another four miles. If the earth us flat, I should have been close to where I started. But, I ended up quite aways away from where I started. Because planar trigonometry doesn’t work at all well on a sphere.

For all the readers I had to look up the word Theodolite.
A theodolite is a precision optical instrument for measuring angles between designated visible points in the horizontal and vertical planes. The traditional use has been for land surveying but it is also used extensively for building and infrastructure construction.

I have nothing to add to your observations because I wasn't there. But I do know if the earth were a sphere at almost 8000 miles in diameter the pythagorean theorem would prove the you shouldn't see boats or buildings beyond 50 miles. This isn't the case.