If there are aliens, what will they look like?

[tradosaurus]

Booo

 

[MossRoad]

Something that makes you go.....hmmmmmm

A match isn't as bright as a lightbulb. A rocket engine is brighter than the sun.

 

[tradosaurus]

You made a mistake, own up to it.

You've been making mistakes. When you going to own up to it boss?

So how does your boy Felix land close to his launch point if the earth is rotating faster than the speed of sound?

 

[tradosaurus]

A match isn't as bright as a lightbulb. A rocket engine is brighter than the sun.

Well at least you didn't say.....grabity!

 

[/pine]

Line of sight radio waves are another example with the obvious need for tall antennas...

 

[MossRoad]

You've been making mistakes. When you going to own up to it boss?

So how does your boy Felix land close to his launch point if the earth is rotating faster than the speed of sound?

We already told you. You keep spewing the same nonsense repeatedly.

 

[tradosaurus]

Line of sight radio waves are another example with the obvious need for tall antennas...

 

[tradosaurus]

We already told you. You keep spewing the same nonsense repeatedly.

We? You find one mistake I made in your fictional universe (west to east) and that's all you got?

 

[MossRoad]

You've been making mistakes. When you going to own up to it boss?

So how does your boy Felix land close to his launch point if the earth is rotating faster than the speed of sound?

Really. I want you to think about what you just asked.

The speed of anything is only relevant between two objects.
I'm sure you've witnessed the doppler effect of a train horn sometime in your life.
The speed of the soundwaves leave the horn at a fixed speed.
Then you have to add the speed of the train to the speed of the horn sound waves.
If the train is speeding towards you, the sound waves are coming at you faster than they are as the train goes away from you.
That's why the sound shifts as it goes by.

Felix's speed and the earth's surface speed are relevant to each other. If the earth's surface speed was zero, as you think, or if the earth's surface speed is about 1000mph at the equator as the rest of the world believes, the effects would be exactly the same.

We've already proven this concept to you in the example of jumping inside of a moving vehicle.

You know all of these examples can be observed and performed by yourself.

 

[Fixastuff]

Something that makes you go.....hmmmmmm

I've had numerous large fires in the backyard from trees piled up clearing land. In the summer there is definitely a shadow from the flames blocking the sunlight.