If there are aliens, what will they look like?

[bcp]

From going to the observation deck of the Willis Tower (used to be the Sears Tower).

I was just thinking about that. If the Earth was flat, you should sometimes be able use a telescope to see Denver from there, or at least the Rocky Mountains.



Bruce

 

[CalG]

Who here believes in Telekinesis?

Raise my hand!

 

[tradosaurus]

Neil deGrasse Tyson Slams Flat Earthers

'The Earth is round.'

time.com

The actor, Neil Tyson, loves to speak down to people who he disagrees with. He is nothing but a pretender who invents ideas with absolutely no proof whatsoever. And Einstein couldn't hold a candle to Tesla.

Neil Tyson: "We have video from space of the rotating spherical Earth. The Earth is round". Welp, that settles it.

I also a a video of Klingons fighting Romulans so I guess aliens are real too.

 

[tradosaurus]

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.

Or maybe...hang with me now....just maybe the earth isn't rotating and Felix landed close to his launch point because....... the earth isn't rotating.

So you say the sun "rises", meaning the sun moves, but the earth rotates?

Beam me up Scotty!

 

[tradosaurus]

I think I've found one..

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In other words "I can't defend my fictional universe so I will resort to personal attacks".

Yep, encountered your kind before. Just means you are feeling uncomfortable in your belief system once it is challenged.

Trust me, I've been in your shoes and in ain't fun!

 

[tradosaurus]

Where is the south pole on a flat earth map?

This doesn't look like an ice wall:

https://www.nationsonline.org/maps/antarctica_map.jpg

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

vostok station, antarctica at DuckDuckGo

DuckDuckGo. Privacy, Simplified.

duckduckgo.com

People can go to Antarctica and see for themselves.

air tours antarctica at DuckDuckGo

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Bruce

There is no south pole. I believe the ice wall completely encompasses the flat earth.

 

[RoyJackson]

The actor, Neil Tyson, loves to speak down to people who he disagrees with. He is nothing but a pretender who invents ideas with absolutely no proof whatsoever. And Einstein couldn't hold a candle to Tesla.

Actor????
You have a real problem with reality, don't ya?

 

[tradosaurus]

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.

From what I witnessed and logic and math I understand now the earth is round too. And flat.

Just not a sphere that's rotating at 1,000 mph, revolving around the sun at 66,000 mph, while the sun is shooting around the solar system at almost 1,000,000 mph. This is fantasy land without any proof whatsoever.

People that insist the world is a sphere 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.

 

[RoyJackson]

In other words "I can't defend my fictional universe so I will resort to personal attacks".

Yep, encountered your kind before. Just means you are feeling uncomfortable in your belief system once it is challenged.

Trust me, I've been in your shoes and in ain't fun!

Not even close...I just think you're a very religious guy trying to inflict your beliefs on others...and, it' ain't working...
I had a grand mother like that....

 

[tradosaurus]

Actor????
You have a real problem with reality, don't ya?

"Theoretical" Physicist and engineer being paraded across the country to defend science fiction is a paid actor.