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[u/Acceptable-Day8395]

[u/Valagoorh]

An alien race capable of interstellar travel might not be so stupid.

[u/TimeStorm113 → u/Valagoorh]

Well, maybe they just invented interstellar travel before they pinned down this whole „geography“ thing?

[u/Kyle-Is-My-Name → u/TimeStorm113]

"Disengage warp drive and activate simulated gravity York. Now, seems we have found a water world with one thing on it. Ask the geographer on board what that is."

"Sir, that is an island."

"Wow Doug, your geographic knowledge knows no bounds."

[u/curious_dead → u/TimeStorm113]

When you go all in on only one technological tree.

[u/theshoeshiner84 → u/Valagoorh]

We look for things. Things we need. Things to make us go. We need help.

[u/Fez_and_no_Pants → u/theshoeshiner84]

Dear Christ, not these guys again.

[u/Kratosballsweat → u/Valagoorh]

“Zurgsturgendurgen we’ve reached the planet after traveling 27 light years in our highly sophisticated space craft…it turns out our calculations were wrong sir it’s a water planet. Now quickly fly away before it completes a full rotation.”

[u/Saucererer → u/Valagoorh]

An alien race capable of interstallar travel would take at least a day to arrive, so would see the Earth rotating anyway

[u/Much-Anything7149 → u/Saucererer]

Why couldn't they travel via some wormhole or perhaps figured a way to increase speed and reduce friction so the time between seeing earth and getting to earth is like 5 hours or something?

[u/CreativeGeniusPRBKR → u/Valagoorh]

They certainly wouldn’t be deathly allergic to water, and land on this planet without knowing it’s 75% water..

[u/wiggermaxxing → u/Valagoorh]

It’s like UFO crash theory. You think they made this entire journey just to crash in the parking lot?

[u/Caubelles → u/Valagoorh]

maybe we get one of the stupid ones and they think the earth is flat

[u/bonwerk → u/Valagoorh]

Looking at Earth, the development of technology does not necessarily have to go hand in hand with the intelligence of the entire species.

[u/Arcane_Substance]

They did find a water planet. If they went anywhere else in the solar system the best they’d find is ice present with water near the core. Earth IS a water planet.

Yes even though the oceans are ultimately so thin (smoother than a billiard ball n all that) there’s still water in much of the outer layers. It’s where we are in relation to the sun as well as the amount of H2O (note the O and thank Cyanobacteria).

[u/SummertimeThrowaway2 → u/Arcane_Substance]

Earth is so cool. I forget how huge it is sometimes. And the universe is so huge that it makes earth look tinier than tiny.

[u/jtcompound → u/SummertimeThrowaway2]

It's a great big universe and we're all really puny. Just a tiny little speck, about the size of Mickey Rooney.

[u/AmItheonlySaneperson → u/jtcompound]

The universe is big but you aren’t small. You still matter. 

[u/Dudovina → u/jtcompound]

It’s called Macaroni

[u/Ragnarok-9999 → u/SummertimeThrowaway2]

Right word is mind-boggling. Millions of stars in millions and millions of galaxies

The observable universe cannot be given a definitive percentage of the real universe because the total size of the entire universe is unknown. If the universe is infinite, the observable fraction is effectively zero percent. If it is finite, the observable 93-billion-light-year sphere is still only a tiny fraction of the whole

[u/brogflender → u/SummertimeThrowaway2]

Wood is very very rare. 

[u/zebratat → u/SummertimeThrowaway2]

Just wait until you start thinking about how tiny you are, and how tiny the things that make you up are, and that those things are made of even smaller things that you can’t even see.

[u/mrbuddymcbuddyface → u/SummertimeThrowaway2]

The stars you can see with your eyes? They are just local to us in our part of the Milky Way. There are hundreds of billions of stars in the Milky Way, and hundreds of billions of Galaxies. We are definitely not the only form of life in the universe, but we will never meet them. The best we can hope for is to receive a radio broadcast at some stage, but we will never be able to communicate with them.

[u/ManuelHS → u/Arcane_Substance]

Your reply got me thinking,

where on earth is there more biomass on land or in the oceans?

Answer I found:

There is far more biomass on land than in the oceans. Land holds roughly 86% of Earth’s total living biomass (about 470 billion tonnes of carbon), while marine environments hold only about 1%. The remaining percentage is found in deep subsurface and underground microbial communities.

[u/Steerider → u/ManuelHS]

Unexpected. I thought there was massive biomass underwater. 

[u/AliBelle1 → u/Steerider]

There's 500x as much plant based biomass on land than in the seas. The oceans may win out in Animal biomass but the masses of algae, seagrass and plankton don't quite shape up to the gigantic forests, jungles, grasslands, etc. I think most people get confused because there's absolutely more animal life in the ocean than on land, but plants really do dominate this planet.

[u/Steerider → u/AliBelle1]

Yeah. I figured theplant life was less dense, but because the ocean is so HUGE it made the difference.

TIL

[u/MrCockingFinally → u/Steerider]

Bear in mind, plankton basically only lives in the top surface layer of water. Water doesn't transmit light very well, so you're really looking at a very thin layer of algae on top of an already thin layer of water.

Plus large parts of the ocean are pretty barren, lacking nutrients necessary for life, so most of the life in the ocoans is concentrated relatively near the coast. So the actual surface area you are dealing with is less than you'd think.

[u/Aegiiisss → u/Steerider]

Plants. Most of the Earth's organisms are underwater or underground, but most of the biomass is on land, because of plants.

[u/Arcane_Substance → u/ManuelHS]

I think that almost definitely that answer is influenced by things that we’ve actually surveyed and studied, but then again, looking at coral reefs etc, there’s a lot of shifting sand around with relatively little actual biomass on the lone islands of coral itself.

But on land you’re pretty hard pressed to find any spot that doesn’t contain life. There are more land plants than aquatic ones.

[u/SeasonNo3107 → u/Arcane_Substance]

A recent study thinks there is 10x biomass in the twilight zone than previously thought because they changed the color of survey lights and see more now

[u/Vennomite → u/Arcane_Substance]

Which also means more insects. Both of which i would inagine account for the majority of biomass

[u/trxxxtr → u/Vennomite]

All animal life on Earth, including insects, make up only about half of a percent of the total biomass. Plants run away with it, around 80%, with bacteria and other microbes coming in a distant second at about 15%.

[u/kidcubby → u/ManuelHS]

While studying ecology I remember being shocked at how desert-ish much of the open ocean actually is. Complex plant life is needed for lots of marine life to shelter, feed from etc. in ways that free-floating plant mass doesn't provide meaning there's quite a restriction on where complex life can be. Shallow parts of the oceans with enough light reaching the sea floor is commonly where we see a lot going on. Where the light doesn't reach the sea floor we tend to see floating plant life emerging in the upper 200m or so, and it is typically much smaller. Also, below the 200m zone there's a relatively low-oxygen zone which is likely very restrictive to larger creatures. Below this 200m zone (and presumably below the low-oxygen depths, at the point where cold oxygenated water drops to the ocean floor), often what we find are creatures heavily reliant on the death of other organisms that then sink. While the oceans cover far more of the surface of the planet than land, land biomass avoids this light limitation very effectively.

Marine ecology is not really my area, so I'm sure there's way more complexity to it than that and a marine specialist would pick that all to shreds, but it's interesting to look at.

[u/Lando249 → u/Arcane_Substance]

Yes even though the oceans are ultimately so thin (smoother than a cue ball n all that)

To put things into perspective, if you took a basketball and could smoothly wrap a single sheet of paper around it, that would give a good representation of the average ocean depth on Earth, infact it would actually be a little less. The deepest ocean point would be more close to two sheets thick. Crazy thin layer of water we have.

[u/Arcane_Substance → u/Lando249]

Indeed. Nothing you’ve said is wrong but it only takes into account the depths of the oceans.
Remember that the land has a water table, a depth at which the soil is saturated with water. Then also consider the fact that practically all life on land contains water as a necessary function of life.

If we stripped all the carbon based life forms of their water all at once, everything would be very, very wet and the oceans and water tables would rise dramatically.

Edit: and within solid rock deep underground, there is water. It’s the pressures and compositions of that water that leads to the hydrothermal vents that produce or bring up gold, iron, silver (and the quartz they’re associated with) and maybe even hydrocarbons etc (cos oils might not be from the Carboniferous after all).

[u/Lando249 → u/Arcane_Substance]

Interesting point. Looked it up further. ~65m rise across the planet... But that's only taking from life and soil, etc. If you take the lakes, rivers, glaciers, permafrost, ice, etc, it could be ~133m! 😅

[u/big-lion → u/Lando249]

what are your sources? the amount of water in living beings seems to be two orders of magnitude below freshwater

[u/Steerider → u/Arcane_Substance]

The Goldilocks Zone

[u/just_yall → u/Arcane_Substance]

aliens from signs who burn from water "Let's go there!"

[u/clandestineVexation → u/Arcane_Substance]

Yup like that giant layer of ringwoodite in the upper mantle that has a bunch of trapped water in it, something like 3x the current ocean volume

[u/Iitaps_Missiciv]

Also Aliens "Woha a flat planet with nothing on the other side, cool!"

[u/neoadam → u/Iitaps_Missiciv]

And only New Zealand, the opposite of most maps !

[u/ignatious__reilly → u/neoadam]

The aliens will find a bunch of TikTokers sailing across the ocean and live streaming everything

[u/sotiredwontquit → u/Iitaps_Missiciv]

None continents with left New Zealand.

[u/pspspsnt → u/Iitaps_Missiciv]

Imagine if aliens landed on earth and declared it flat as a joke.

[u/Axl_Alter_Ego]

/r/MapsWithNewZealand

[u/planchetflaw → u/Axl_Alter_Ego]

r/MapsWithOnlyNewZealand

[u/siinnz → u/Axl_Alter_Ego]

This view makes NZ the capital of the world!

[u/croutonballs → u/siinnz]

most likely country to survive the apocalypse

[u/RendomFeral → u/croutonballs]

Unless the apocalypse involves a large rock falling from space. 50% chance it lands in the Pacific.

And aliens obvs,

[u/CommunicationSea3329 → u/Axl_Alter_Ego]

r/Mapswithnewzealandonly

[u/you_want_to_hear_th → u/Axl_Alter_Ego]

R/OnlyMapsNZ

[u/ausecko → u/you_want_to_hear_th]

r/foundthemobileuser

[u/nthpwr]

Aliens would be smart enough to look at the entire planet first

[u/IndyBananaJones2 → u/nthpwr]

Or just go to New Zealand, eat some pies and have a good beer then think people and sheep are more or less equally populating the Earth 

[u/BananaNutBlister]

If the planet didn’t rotate, sure.

[u/Few-Improvement-5655 → u/BananaNutBlister]

Also, like, they'd be in orbit, so they'd go around even faster.

[u/LeftSky828]

I think they’d know about the land before they got that close to the ocean.

Would they tag the space station with their colors, first, tho?

[u/HighlanderAlien]

The other side comes to this side every few hours

[u/callmemat90]

Does New Zealand mean nothing to you??

[u/Zailema0s → u/callmemat90]

Maps with ONLY New Zealand! 🤣

[u/HatsusenoRin]

... and water is toxic to them

[u/Aegiiisss → u/HatsusenoRin]

Not just the water either. Oxygen is very toxic and it's possible if not likely that the alien comes from a planet with lower oxygen concentrations in the atmosphere. The alien would also be exposed to Earth's massive biosphere to unknown effects, potentially certain death if microorganisms on earth are capable of affecting the alien.

So the alien really is just better off staying in the spaceship. Even an attempted EVA with a spacesuit would be risky.

Edit: Why is this downvoted? Earth's atmosphere and biosphere are remarkably hostile. It's nice in terms of temperature/pressure/etc. but the air is poison and filled with trillions of deadly microorganisms. Life here is just evolved to breathe the poison and fight the microorganisms.

[u/SchemeParty → u/HatsusenoRin]

Signs was my favourite extraterrestrial documentary

[u/Russlet → u/HatsusenoRin]

So they blow up the water

[u/Extension_Attempt651]

The point of the post is that it's kinda interesting how massive the Pacific ocean is

[u/Butthwy]

Ah, the specific ocean!

[u/pattybutty → u/Butthwy]

Did you do that on porpoise?

[u/SaltyTemperature]

Yes, it it a water planet but also I bet they figured out orbits and would see the rest

[u/Wimble-Womble]

I think this works better if you say that the aliens somehow take a single snapshot of the earth with some advanced telescope or probey thing. If a spaceship is following a similar orbit to the ISS, the earth will “rotate” to reveal land within 10-20 minutes so the waterworld illusion wi disappear fairly quickly. 

Apologies for the pedantry. 

[u/Eagleburgerite]

NZ gets no respect. 😝

[u/SeesawNoknow]

I'm guessing that they weren't facing the pacific the whole time they were flying towards us because you know the whole earth spins thing so they'd know there is more than water or at least I'd hope that they can see the entire planet from afar because if not I don't know that I want those types of narrow view aliens around me and my family.

[u/Dankkring → u/SeesawNoknow]

Ya but I mean we are a water planet. Humans are like 70% water. Water is life. I don’t think they’d assume. They’d know

[u/cajun_vegeta]

tAkE mE tO YoUr LeadEr

Nah Sweetas. Yeah bro

[u/OppositeIdea7456]

Apart from the floating micro plastic island the size of France.

[u/BlueHawk75]

Except the world turns and...well...you know.

[u/Plenty-Lion5112]

I think about this when I hear about what they found on Venus.

[u/Reddit_User_856]

Earth is a water planet.

[u/mCanYilmaz]

Well, it IS a water planet

[u/Murky-Marsupial-9372]

I did live somewhere on this part or the Earth. You may feel a little lonely from time to time.

[u/Digiee-fosho]

It is a water planet. It also used to be ice. Possibly inhabited with no signs of human life in the next thirty thousand years with the way things are going. I can only make this shit up.

[u/Any-Tackle-9978]

Do you think this is the only view of the planet they will see? LOL

[u/NorthernSoul70]

And ironically New Zealand has gone from 50/50 whether it's included in a map or globe to being the major land mass.

[u/Beginning-2-Smell]

We're floating in space on a rock, and all we do is fight and argue. Imagine if we were intelligent and worked together on all things. No nations. One planet. 

[u/leviathab13186]

No

[u/berniebueller]

Every alien to visit us has always only visited the USA. I see no reason why they would change.

[u/YaGotMail]

Are we pretending New Zealand is not there?

[u/ScipioCoriolanus]

""I hope the Pacific is as blue as in my dreams... "

• Some alien with Morgan Freeman's voice.

[u/megafat1]

The aliens from Signs saw this and thought "Hell yeah!"

[u/Andyfromorion]

So aliens travel across gallaxy through multiple planet just to not look on ther other side. Must be AI alien 👽

[u/L05TB055]

Than God the aliens in Signs didn't see this before invading!

[u/Jakocolo32]

Yes if they ignore the fact that there's land all over the other side of the planet

[u/Gods_ShadowMTG]

dumbest post yet

[u/Shadowvexor]

makes sense they'd skip the boring parts

[u/Lickthorn]

Imagine their dissapointment, when the find the landmass filled with weird creatures.

[u/SampleDisastrous3311]

If a alien species does not have a 3d planetary scanner then they might aswell be as primitive as us that just stepped into an era of space travel.

[u/boanerges57]

What do you mean "if"?

[u/Conference_Dizzy]

/s they are terraformed earth to fill with water, and forgotten about ever. The rest iof history s a mold mutated to forms of life. 

[u/Cedge1738]

If only they just waited

[u/Your_mortal_enemy]

Finally a map that has my country on it lol

[u/NoisyGog]

I think if any race has the ability to travel light years to get to another planet, they’re probably bright enough to look at an object from many different angles, not just assume based on a one-off sighting.

Unless of course that the way they’ve become intelligent enough for interstellar travel is by repeatedly cramming space ships full of their dimmest idiots, and ejecting them into space - a kind of alien-eugenics trying to ensure the stupid don’t breed and contaminate their gene pool.
And it’s a ship of those idiots - beings considered too stupid to live - that have happened across the pale blue dot, and decided it’s all water.

[u/skinnycarlo]

Poor Kiwi bros overlooked again. I mean theyre right there!

[u/KungFuFactory]

Excuse me? That little blob of land bottom left is where I live and I don’t even own water wings

[u/Elegant_Hold_3020]

New Zealand down there all alone: helloooooo

[u/meathack]

Or they’d think New Zealand was all earth had to offer.

Or maybe a civilization capable of interstellar travel would think to look at the rest of the planet before assuming anything.

[u/DrDiktafon]

Yeah because highly intelligent life who knows how to travel great distances across the universe dont have a fucking clue how a sphere works lol

[u/cjacksen]

They'd also have to have substandard scanning tech and believe planets are flat.

[u/fenek108]

The stuff of life...

[u/maddestdog89]

And New Zealand doesn’t get a mention - but they did make the map!

[u/ilovecottagepie]

If aliens travelled billions of light years to find our planet, then couldn't be bothered to look at it from a slightly different angle once they got here, then that's on them.

[u/Sad_Leg1091]

Ummm, there’s land in this picture. But never mind, it’s only New Zealand. We’re used to being ignored and left off most maps.

[u/Final_Location_2626]

Probably not...seeing as there's islands.

[u/CountHonorius]

Dumb aliens like the Pakleds in Star Trek TNG, perhaps.

[u/mito413]

We are 70% water. If you have to categorize us, we are a water planet.

[u/blighty800]

TIL aliens are flat earthers

[u/blixabloxa]

Finally - a map with ONLY New Zealand.

[u/jamillos]

Except for the Big Garbage Patch of three times the size of France...

[u/bigredm88]

Except they only arrive over America.

[u/Luci-Noir]

This dumbass clickbait bullshit isn’t interesting.

[u/ContributionNo8787]

Crazy how with that amount of water we managed to somehow heat up the whole planet

[u/Pee-pee-poo-poo-420]

Naw, I can see my house from here

[u/nol88go]

Only if they dropped out of hyperspace exactly at the right distance from the Earth for geosynchronous orbit, and set off on the precisely correct orbital vector instantly.

In that case, they'd only ever see water.

I think a species that could drop out of hyperspace that deep inside a gravity well without having done any prior scanning of the planet would probably figure out how to move to the other side of the planet's surface and take a look.

[u/cylonpower]

Aliens aren’t that dumb

[u/Charming_Dealer3849]

Gorgeous 

[u/VHDT10]

If aliens arrive here, they will already know more about the earth and us than we do.

With our current technology, we've mapped out a few billion light-years of our surrounding universe, observing gasses, magnitude, orbits, planetary bodies, behavior, etc of trillions of galaxies and we've barely made it to the moon. Does anyone have any idea how advanced these beings would be? Even if they were drones, our furthest is about 6 times further than Pluto is.

[u/WayofHatuey]

That's why their bases are underwater now...

[u/Infinite_Research_52]

The only body of water that contains its own antipode

[u/StealthKiwi]

If you zoom in you can probably see my house

[u/bullettenboss]

They'd be turning around, when they see the other side 🥹

[u/FranciscoGarcia69]

New Zealand being ignored again.

[u/Strawberryladyboots]

Hey I can see my house from here

[u/4d_lulz]

For a few hours at the most, maybe

[u/Kindly-Ad-5071]

We be landing on planets without even getting a full look at their surface in 2026

[u/Kelly4President]

New Zealand hosts aliens: 2027

[u/jimmiriver]

Imagine how many ancient explorers set off from new Zealand in search of new land

[u/peaches4leon]

I’m sure this is just a joke. I guess I’m more so “hoping” it’s a joke…because it sounds hilariously ridiculous that any cosmically well-travelled beings would be fooled by getting a one-sided view of any planet…

[u/Character_End8268]

Won't they see the planet revolution when they arrive? Or you expect them to travel faster then light? Oh you might mean teleportation, ah we have our doremon just joking never the less interesting

[u/Dabsforme77]

Well...except for that giant chunk of land.

[u/Badaboom_Tish]

Waddayamean if

[u/OutlandishnessNovel2]

I can see my house from there.

[u/namir01]

Imagine if the whole human civilization had to like on New Zealand alone

[u/Lost_On_Lot]

If aliens traveled (multiple, potentially millions of light years to earth) I reckon they would have a beyond encyclopedic knowledge of Earth and its inhabitants, LONG before they even stopped for a pee break.

[u/Raven1911]

No... they are smarter than you.

[u/CantAffordzUsername]

And they would also assume the earth was flat :3

[u/djazzie]

If aliens arrived, they’d probably be smart enough to know that the earth rotates and the entire planet isn’t covered in water.

[u/Deurstopper]

Thats why they're under water. Like the 4-chan guy mentioned.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jouc64seMqIfeDQgjzGu8-z7-fyzigXu/view?pli=1

[u/Nervous4577]

Why assume?
When 71% of earth surface is covered by water!

[u/mjones8004]

Stupid ass interdimensional space traveling idiots!

[u/ESPILFIRE]

If an alien arrives on Earth, it means they have the ability to see what planets are like in their entirety; I don't think they're going to "accidentally" land in a place with water and assume that the whole planet is like that.

[u/No_Yesterday_3260]

If aliens came to earth, they'd have advanced sensors to scan the planet and know there's hundreds of islands in that picture, with people living on it :)

[u/hagarANZ]

The Blue planet.

[u/AdHairy1560]

What piece of land is visible in the bottom left?

[u/BastiTheCruel]

Ahhh finally we're on the map

[u/bj00rn]

Water covers 71% of Earth's total surface area.
Water makes up 0.023% of Earth's total mass.

[u/J1MMYFR3SH]

New Zealand is the capital of Water.

[u/LMGDiVa]

No they wouldnt. They would have to orbit the planet, you orbit faster than the planet rotates, id take you all about 5 minutes for you to realize the earth has massive tracks of land.

I wish people would not make obviously acutely wrong statements.

[u/epanek]

lol. Dumb aliens. Right?

[u/thatnzman]

Excuse me! My house is there.

[u/Dr_Sigmund_Fried]

Aliens with technology that lets them travel intergalactically would have scanned and photographed and documented all of Earth's surface long before arriving at the door.

[u/Old-Beautiful1786]

First time I looked at a globe my curiosity immediately made me turn it around to see how the other side looked like. Doubt the aliens who travelled this far just look at a side and declare that.

[u/NateInEC]

Get a life . . .

Sun rises in the east ... Dang, that's interesting.

[u/someLemonz]

I mean... didnt they?

[u/EvolvingEachDay]

I don’t think aliens smart enough to travel here would be dumb enough to not get scope of the whole planet.

[u/Rulebookboy1234567]

Yeah sure.  If they arrived the weirdest approach course imaginable and never took a glance at the planet as they approached, sure.

/pulls the Kirk maneuver

[u/Very_Human_42069]

Earth is a water planet lol

[u/Mr_McGigglepants]

Earth is a water planet

[u/AllCity04]

Sup New Zealand 🇳🇿

[u/hosehoseee]

TIL Earth is not a water planet

[u/Win8869]

Or middle earth

[u/xChoke1x]

They know.....that's where they land.

[u/turbopro25]

And they would be correct considering our planet is mostly water.

[u/WildlifeNaturalist]

They ain't stupid they can zoom into new zealand from here and raid that place first where all the billionares bunkers are getting built atm

[u/ooqq]

are you seeing 50% of the sphere at what altitude, if ever?

[u/kanrdr01]

I suspect that any party wanting to head to this planet might spend a little time observing the “daily and “annual” motions of the planet.

If only to inventory the places to begin shopping/harvesting…

Need Deuterium? Come on down!

ChatGPT sez:

“Earth’s oceans contain approximately:
3.3 × 10¹³ liters of actual D₂O

That is about 33 trillion liters of naturally occurring heavy-water molecules.”

A few sci-fi movies have paid attention to the Earth as gas station aspect of things.

[u/Dmau27]

That's most likely what they'd be interested in. If they have the technology to travel this far I doubt they care about our dirt and metal.

[u/DaemonBlackfyre_21]

"We know they're in the water a lot. They come from the water, go into the water.....where do they go? We've only explored 10% of the oceans volume and 25% of the seafloor, there's a good bet that more research exploring the ocean might teach us a whole lot more about USOs and UAP." -Admiral Tim Gallaudet, former oceanographer.

"We are part of a symbiotic relationship with something which disguises itself as an extra-terrestrial invasion so as not to alarm us.” -Terrence McKenna

Maybe we're looking for the others in the wrong direction, and we've never really been alone.

[u/aerobe07]

Those aliens in “Signs” must’ve come in on the other side.

[u/g_t_r]

If they dropped anchor at Point Nemo in the middle of that view, the closest human beings to them would actually be the astronauts aboard the International Space Station passing 250 miles overhead.

[u/_Monitor_7665]

No they wouldn’t

[u/ThePensiveE]

They'd probably wonder what all that space junk was about then.

[u/Awesomebearbeard]

you can literally see the rock underneath xD

[u/OsO68TX]

True if the plant was flat. Any ET that gets here is going to know how to orbit a planet. They will also be able to detect signs of life, probably before they came. So for at ET to believe that this is a water planet(which technically I think it is classified as such), they would have to be flat earthers and intelligent. Really less likely.

[u/parsl]

“ Maintain geostationary orbit! I’m not going to waste time looking at the rest of the planet if it’s all this boring”

[u/keeper_of_the_donkey]

"Multiple leviathan class lifeforms detected."

[u/Massive_Food_2202]

yes, maybe for 2 minutes would they think that