If there are aliens, what will they look like?

   / If there are aliens, what will they look like? #771  
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? ;-)
It might be "easily" explained but in the end your explanation is a belief which doesn't fit the "science" of a 1,000 mph rotating globe. So the prevailing winds just so happened to negate the rotational velocity (at the speed of sound) of the earth? Hard to believe.
 
   / If there are aliens, what will they look like? #772  
It might be "easily" explained but in the end your explanation is a belief which doesn't fit the "science" of a 1,000 mph rotating globe. So the prevailing winds just so happened to negate the rotational velocity (at the speed of sound) of the earth? Hard to believe.
Think of it, If you are in a moving train car, regardless of how fast the train is moving, EVERYTHING in your immediate surroundings remains motionless. (disregard the jiggle of the track gaps)

I think it was that Einstein fellow who pointed out that from the perspective of someone on the earth, relative motions were difficult if not impossible to detect.

Here is an interesting aside...

Some time back, I read... on the topic of global warming. a rather good paper published by NASA or NAOA or sum such. There was much brought out on solar radiation, atmospheric absorption , reflection Libido and sundry.

Bottom line was what struck me. Any increase in the earths atmospheric energy (heat) would be manifest as increased WIND, and dissipated as FRICTION across the earth's surface. I could find no fault in the paper. And am happy to accept a windy world.

Perhaps these wind generators are ahead of their time!
 
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   / If there are aliens, what will they look like? #773  
We know that wind is created by the irregular movement of surface air caused by the wavering and/or oscillation of trees.

Obviously upper air currents are caused by hot air balloons, birds, camera drones, and airplanes.

Anyway, tho was the guy who enlightened us that too many windmills would interrupt winds, acting like brakes to stop the planet frim rotating? Seems he wouldn't be convinced otherwise.
 
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   / If there are aliens, what will they look like? #775  
You want to know Good Gravy? Baumgartner capsule, in the Red Bull Jump, was launched from Roswell International Air Center. His ascent took approximately 2 1/2 after which the capsule levelled at approximately 24 mi in elevation. He jumped and 9 minutes later landed near Roswell New Mexico just 23 miles from his launch point.

I guess the earth stopped rotating for approximately 3 hours. :ROFLMAO:
Watch this on inertial guidance.
edit youtube removed -here is another on the same subject


Draper, Siemens and some other MIT folks really advanced our understanding of "place"
 
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   / If there are aliens, what will they look like? #776  
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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!
You can't keep your fiction straight is the correct answer.

The earth rotates west to east. That's why we see the sunrise in the east.
IF your misguided example of "if he went up and the earth rotated under him, he should have landed somewhere else" actually worked, he'd have had to land west of where he left from, not east as you stated.

Not only are you not keeping your fiction straight, you're not keeping your defense of your fiction straight.
 
   / If there are aliens, what will they look like? #778  
Where is the south pole on a flat earth map?

This doesn't look like an ice wall:

And there is this place, not even on the edge?

People can go to Antarctica and see for themselves.

Bruce
I read an article where someone was at a flat earth convention and had an honest discussion with one of them. He asked the flat earth believer if there was an airplane flight available that flew over the south pole, would he like to be treated to that flight, cost free, just so he could see for himself? The flat earth believer said yes, he'd like to see that. So the guy found a commercial airline flight from somewhere in New Zealand to somewhere in South America and said here we go.... then the flat earther turned him down. He got scared that what he might see would not jibe with his entire way of thinking how the world worked.

I'm from the have to see it to believe it school of thought. So far, everything I've seen corresponds to a round earth. Nothing I've seen with my own eyes has presented itself as supporting a flat earth.

From watching sunsets from land, sea, and air.
From watching ships sailing away from me over the horizon.
From looking at round planets through telescopes since I was a toddler.
From looking at all the phases of the the moon through telescopes since I was a toddler (it doesn't give off it's own light).
From watching solar and lunar eclipses since I was in grade school.
From watching a space shuttle launch in Florida (actually 2 of them).
From viewing the Chicago skyline from just about every point around the lower section of Lake Michigan from East Chicago all the way to St. Joe/Benton Harbor since I was a toddler.
From going to the observation deck of the Willis Tower (used to be the Sears Tower).
From being an art student since I was a toddler and learning about the actual meaning of the word 'perspective' (It's the first large word I taught both of my children).

All of those things I've seen in person. Not on TV. Not on the big screen. In person, right in front of me...

From all that, I've concluded that so far, the world is round.

People that insist the world is flat will turn down every opportunity to go with you to witness things for themselves. They are scared to test their faith. Faith should be tested. It's the way you discover truth. It's how science works. You test to make things fail. If they fail, they were faulty. If they pass, they are still correct. And you keep testing and testing and testing.
 
   / If there are aliens, what will they look like? #780  
I think I've found one..

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