If there are aliens, what will they look like?

[MossRoad]

 

[CalG]

With all these relative motions, and I'm sure there are some we are yet to become aware of, isn't it a wonder.

Considering as much in the light of Einstein's works with time and motion etc. it is amazing that time passes at all.

Perhaps distance is not so important to our extraterrestial friends in another system. "only a couple of starjerks over".

Perhaps no time at all. Only through that door. That one! The door of perception.

"All things come to the man who waits".

 

[/pine]

"Special" folks believe in "special" science...

...BTW..
The "I before E except after C" rule has been debunked by science...!

 

[2LaneCruzer]

I think that was the original purpose. An exile,”prison” sentence for those sent there. English penal colony?

Convicts in Australia - Wikipedia

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Did you watch the video? Rather catchy tune. Might be the National anthem now?

Yeah, that's what prompted my remark.

 

[otlski]

We know by observation that lighter things float and heavier things fall or sink.

Okay, we have some common ground, we both observe the same thing. However when posed with a direct question to explain your world view's driving mechanism for the "fall" vector, you instead explain what you observe and do not offer further explanation. I, on the other hand, say that gravity in conjunction with differential density is what causes the stratification and the bolt to "fall".

You may have missed my post earlier.
Post 273

Can you through logic or mathematics explain why accelerometers react the way they do to acceleration and as you would put it "density". I say gravity.

Gravity is not a constant. The variations are consistent and mathematically supportable in a way that density would fall apart. Gravity varies with:
latitude - the Earth's equatorial bulge means that surface gravity is lessened as you mover further from the equator.
Centripetal force - counteracts gravity differently for differing place on Earth at differing radius from the center.
Elevation - the higher the elevation, the farther from the Earth's center, the lower is gravity.
Local anomalies - due to the mass density variation of landforms. Rock vs. ocean, etc.

When I ship an instrument from Connecticut to Kennedy Space Center. I have to make corrections in the gravity factor in order for the instrument to pass its self diagnostics tests. These instruments happen to be center of gravity instruments. My occupation, my company, my customers, are not frauds. If what I did for a living was a fraud, if gravity were a fraud, many of our country's most sophisticated weapon systems would simply not work. They do work. See Ukraine. Hundreds of thousands of people around the world would have to be "in" on the scam. Puck-ass college students would have figured it out years ago and the gig would be up.

 

[tallyho8]

Paul Gilligan has shown us what aliens look like. Now we know!

 

[CalG]

Now here is an "alien" idea to consider.

IF a very deep, straight hole could be put down to the " Center of the earth", and through to the other side

What would happen to an object "tossed down the hole"?

yo-yo? resting where?

please disregard any logic of intense heat, molten cores and other such nonsense . It's a cased hole, land to land for sake of consideration ;-) ;-)

 

[Cougsfan]

Along the same lines, I was wondering,,, if this whole gravity thing is real,,, let say we threw a person in that hole CalG was so nice to dig for us. What would they weigh when they came to the center of the earth? Perhaps the earth's gravity pulling out on them in each direction would make them have a negative weight causing them to explode outward? I am not sure.

Thinking of those kind of things kind of makes me kind of like the flat earth theory where one can just make up physics as they go. In that case one would fall all the way down through earth.. Down to the next flat earth that is directly below us. People down there are far more intelligent than we are, they don't pass gas, and they have much nicer tractors than we do. It is great not to be bound by logic.

 

[JasperFrank]

You guys should follow the Nooasphere threads on the internet. A friend of mine is making these, and I don't agree with many of it, but it might make many people happy. Beginning happy is better than the alternatives.

 

[Cougsfan]

From watching that, my first impression is that those Nooashere guys are well-intended wackos who are combining science with mysticism.