If there are aliens, what will they look like?

[BravoXray]

Many times I've gone outside to watch the ISS fly over. Just impressive as heck.

I also like setting up the telescope in the yard to look at Saturn and it's rings and moons. Last fall I had the kids, my son in-law and wife all take a look. They were impressed.

What kind of scope do you have?

I've got a 8" Meade LX200 Classic.

 

[CalG]

Or Counter hypothesis

 

[CalG]

What kind of scope do you have?

I've got a 8" Meade LX200 Classic.

Come ON guys! Don't derail this important topic with your testy one- upsmanship! ;-)

Post pictures of the extraterrestrials you have seen through your scopes!

Do you remember some of the humor images when the first two mars rovers made a successful landing?

 

[MossRoad]

What kind of scope do you have?

I've got a 8" Meade LX200 Classic.

One is a 4" reflector that I got at Goodwill for $15 on half-off day. But I have my dad's lenses and it works fine for simple stuff, the moon, etc.

Then I have a 6" reflector that my father built by hand in the 30s through 80s. He ground his own mirror. It has parts on it from WWII artillery. When I was a kid, he cannibalized the rotisserie motor from the bbq grill to make a motor to track the sky. I haven't messed with that one in about 20 years, as it's way too heavy to move.

 

[MossRoad]

 

[CalG]

Phyllis!

 

[JasperFrank]

International Space Station

See the International Space Station! As the third brightest object in the sky the space station is easy to see if you know when to look up.

spotthestation.nasa.gov

 

[Rockbadchild]

Regarding travel to the edge of the world. The only thing I have seen presented is that "We can't go there".
Something about a "no go zone" enforced by "governments" in order to keep some terrible mystery "hidden". It sure seems like a big perimeter to keep sealed up.

To bring this post on topic, It has been proposed that the hidden mystery is ALIENS!

Full circle! ;-)

I do find it very interesting that if "going to the edge of space", all directions will take one BACK in time.

It's not like "The big bang" happened in one spot, and if you look back to the spot you look back in time. and looking the opposite way looks ahead. Rather, the BANG happened EVERYWHERE (or nowhere) and all directions look back in time. **
Just like "all directions look away from the center of a flat earth. Even if some journeys would first pass over and through the center to get to the other side.

I'm working on a method to produce a very deep hole. The Mohorovsiic and beyond. A flat earth must have a thickness. I just want to know what that is. I'm thinking LASER ABLATION will be the tool of choice. Self cauterizing and all that. I'm a bit ambivalent about breaking through the far side. What if all the air got sucked out of this side????
Heck, If it doesn't work out after going in a dozen kilometers or so, I'll put a cover on the hole and use it for trash disposal. ;-)



** (Note to self. Set clocks tonight. DST never sleeps)

Some physicist said something I found pretty interesting he said the big bang wasn't only the beginning of our era but the end of the previous..

ya and you would think at 12km you would be closes right ?? the bottom of the hole reach 180 degrees Celsius so what makes it that hot hell ?

Kola Superdeep Borehole, the deepest manmade hole on Earth and deepest artificial point on Earth. The 40,230ft-deep (12.2km)

The deepest hole we have ever dug

During the Cold War, the US and Soviets both created ambitious projects to drill deeper than ever before.

www.bbc.com

 

[the old grind]

The deeper we dig the warmer the conditions are. We hear that diamond miners working thousands of feet deep labor in very warm conditions.

I'd like to know if the heating mechanism that warms us from below is propane, CNG, charcoal, or pellet fired. Stoked by sinners or automatic with feed hopper? Smoker adaptable? Electric? Glass-top?

We should consider all possibilities.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

The deeper we dig the warmer the conditions are. We hear that diamond miners working thousands of feet deep labor in very warm conditions.

I'd like to know if the heating mechanism that warms us from below is propane, CNG, charcoal, or pellet fired. Stoked by sinners or automatic with feed hopper? Smoker adaptable? Electric? Glass-top?

We should consider all possibilities.

Warm indeed. I used to work with a guy who was a mining engineer who spent years in the mines; but took a job with the company I worked for doing environmental compliance. Beside the danger, he said some mines were so hot, that miners with V.D. were actually cured because they maintained such a high body temperature for long stretches.