If there are aliens, what will they look like?

[otlski]

All supposed meteor impacts on the earth are at 90 degree angles. Impossible.

Supposedly not. There appears to be many people who think all meteor impacts are not 90 degrees, I amongst them. Just google meteor impact angle in Google Images.

 

[BravoXray]

Those aren't meteor craters. Not sure what they are but a simple thought experiment rules out a meteor for two reasons:
1) Where is the meteor?
2) How does meteor hit the "rotating and moving" earth at a 90 degree angle?
Same explanation goes for the moon.

You seem to be severely lacking in a basic understanding of physics.
Try reading a high school physics book for a little practical knowledge on how things work in the real world.

 

[CalG]

The PROOF that there is intellegent life out there is,

the fact that they have NOT tried to contact us.

 

[RoyJackson]

Since we're discussing meteor (and asteroid) impacts, there was an incident in Siberia in 1908 known as the Tungusta Incident
The object, which was probably a comet (big ice ball, rather than stony or metallic meteor or asteroid), entered Earth's atmosphere and exploded approximately 5 miles above the ground

Read the article

The Tunguska Impact--100 Years Later | Science Mission Directorate

One hundred years after the Tunguska event in Siberia, scientists review what they've learned about the mysterious blast from the heavens.

science.nasa.gov

 

[tradosaurus]

You seem to be severely lacking in a basic understanding of physics.
Try reading a high school physics book for a little practical knowledge on how things work in the real world.

Love it when people throw out the word "physics" as if that ends all discussions.
I am a 30 yr experienced Mechanical Engineer (BSME 1989) so that word doesn't scare me.
I could list other absurdities that we were told to BELIEVE at an early age that bends the laws of physics.
So please tell where I'm wrong in my two assertions above.

 

[tradosaurus]

Supposedly not. There appears to be many people who think all meteor impacts are not 90 degrees, I amongst them. Just google meteor impact angle in Google Images.

Please show me an angular impact of a supposed meteor hit on earth where there should be a severe gouge in the earth.
Personally I BELIEVE that the "craters" are the evidence of large trees before the Biblical flood. If you could uproot a large tree what would be left?

 

[Outinstickssnafu]

Science applied properly is usually close to the mark, as opposed to those in the industry who are just looking like they know what they're doing. There are some very weird things which really take the cake though, and the explanations are long and tricky that often enough only those in that field truly comprehend it.

I would presume your QED is the path into earth at near perpendicular isn't a straight line but a curve. Still though on impact, there is nothing prohibiting any number to strikes to hit such that it would seem perpendicular and blast energy is transmitted uniformly in all directions.

There are iirc many strikes which are not perpendicular.

I also can't recall an idiom which goes along the lines of there's nothing more scary / frightening than ...

... ok new message and I can't tell if you're just being sarcastic now but nonetheless, you should talk to the people who are finding the small ones that don't quite burn up and search for news items where they've made holes in houses etc.

 

[the old grind]

Please show me an angular impact of a supposed meteor hit on earth where there should be a severe gouge in the earth.
Personally I BELIEVE that the "craters" are the evidence of large trees before the Biblical flood. If you could uproot a large tree what would be left?

Some rather large trees were apparently uprooted during the biblical flood. Here's where one of them was.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor_Crater

We see that the moon had lots of trees before the biblical flood uprooted them too.

 

[RoyJackson]

The last thread was closed due to delving in to religious beliefs versus science and, of course, some speculation about alien life.

I'd rather not see this interesting thread be closed for the same reason

Mods...time to prune...

 

[MossRoad]

And where do you come up with that "statistic"?

It's on the flip side of the flat earth record.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Come on fellows...everybody knows that the earth was created 6000 years ago, with all of these little eccentricities in place, i.e., impact craters, dinosaur and hominid bones, etc.

 

[RoyJackson]

It's on the flip side of the flat earth record.

I think I bought that record in the '60's...but I may have been stoned at the time

 

[MossRoad]

The last thread was closed due to delving in to religious beliefs versus science and, of course, some speculation about alien life.

I'd rather not see this interesting thread be closed for the same reason

Mods...time to prune...

Good grief. I'm out and about. So more work tonight.

 

[tradosaurus]

The last thread was closed due to delving in to religious beliefs versus science and, of course, some speculation about alien life.

I'd rather not see this interesting thread be closed for the same reason

Mods...time to prune...

My point is that there are BELIEFS on the current science side as well as the bible side. Science has evolved into a religion over the last 500 years.
Basically people are believing in their understandings without proof and therefore discussion of "aliens" will always be a religious discussion.

 

[tradosaurus]

And where do you come up with that "statistic"?

Observation of photographs I've seen since I was young. Have you seen a picture of a "meteor" impact that's at an angle thus making a groove into the surface?

 

[ruffdog]

Once upon a time, in the great big universe there was once a planet called Earth. And in our land of make believe, we can dream up all sorts things that has happened there....and we can call this show the "Outer Limits".

 

[the old grind]

All I know for sure is that if I haven't seen something it doesn't exist. No dinosaurs, no Bigfoot, no unicorns, no aliens, no 300,000 species of beetles (170,000 families of them) on a boat all at once. Pics or none of these ever happened.

btw, I always wanted a swimming pool, preferably round, so I bought a backhoe to dig one. Silly me, all I had to do was uproot a tree. Just not sure I can do that at 90 degrees, so it may take a few tries to get the right shape.

 

[CalG]

I'm quite sure that there are a few craters below as one flys from the NE to Phoenix that show a rather round hole (crater), but the displaced earth is mostly on one side of the holes. Suggesting an angular impact.

Of course, time has a way of rearranging things. Certainly if a "flood" uprooted trees, the hole would be immediately refilled with silt etc.

 

[tradosaurus]

I'm quite sure that there are a few craters below as one flys from the NE to Phoenix that show a rather round hole (crater), but the displaced earth is mostly on one side of the holes. Suggesting an angular impact.

Of course, time has a way of rearranging things. Certainly if a "flood" uprooted trees, the hole would be immediately refilled with silt etc.

Same logic applies to any big hole created by something.
My argument is that it would be virtually impossible for a "meteor" to make a 90 degree impact with the supposed movement of the earth and sun.

 

[Outinstickssnafu]

"My point is that there are BELIEFS "

Ah my mistake yesterday, I thought what you said, was in fact based on engineering / maths and that second reply ... not sarcasm. How wrong I was, yup you're NOT replying with anything different than a lady with a bunch of tarot cards for proof. The first remarks about physics was spot on then.