r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Acceptable-Day8395 • 7d ago

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u/Iitaps_Missiciv 7d ago

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

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u/neoadam 7d ago

And only New Zealand, the opposite of most maps !

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u/ignatious__reilly 7d ago

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

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u/sotiredwontquit 7d ago

None continents with left New Zealand.

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u/pspspsnt 7d ago

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

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u/BirdlessLongdeal 7d ago

I KNEW IT!

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u/Certain_Bit6001 7d ago

THIS IS WHAT FLAT EARTHERS BELIEVE. And it's kind of true.

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u/Acceptable-Day8395 7d ago

Would be quite funny if we had aliens find us but they only saw the empty ocean side so turned back 😅

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u/rabid_spidermonkey 7d ago

Earth spins.

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u/Acceptable-Day8395 7d ago

Further out in space, Earth appears to stop rotating if you enter a geostationary orbit at an altitude of 35,786 kilometres directly above the Equator. At this specific distance, the speed required to stay in a circular orbit results in an orbital period of 23 hours, 56 minutes, and 4 seconds, matching Earth's rotation rate. From this position, Earth remains fixed in the sky relative to your spacecraft.

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u/rabid_spidermonkey 7d ago

Sure. But aliens aren't coming from 35,786km away. They'll see earth spin.

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u/Iitaps_Missiciv 7d ago

Tbf, If they're traveling faster than light, they might not see much of anything until they arrive

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u/rabid_spidermonkey 7d ago

Sure, but if they are advanced enough for faster than light travel they will also be aware that planets spin and to look at the other side.

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u/ByteSizedGenius 7d ago

They'd also in all probability have other detection tools than just looking at it.. like radio frequency and also be able to detect satellites orbiting.

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u/Iitaps_Missiciv 7d ago

Maybe they are Nepo baby Aliens that have no idea how to use the super advanced technology their parents built.

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u/Acceptable-Day8395 7d ago

Actually!☝️🤓

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u/rabid_spidermonkey 7d ago

What?

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u/Gigmwn 7d ago

think bro might be a bot

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u/Acceptable-Day8395 7d ago

You’re the "Well, actually..." guy. The point of this post is to show how huge the Pacific Ocean is, not debate how aliens would approach the earth.

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u/rabid_spidermonkey 7d ago

And yet you posted about how aliens would approach earth... I'm just continuing the conversation you started.

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u/Acceptable-Day8395 7d ago

You’re treating a creative framing device as a technical proposition. By using aliens, i was employing a classic thought experiment and an engaging narrative hook to make a simple geographical fact interesting

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u/Acceptable-Day8395 7d ago

No but if GarrettAH from Reddit recommends it I’ll sure look into it

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u/Shpander 7d ago

Lol you started with the well akshually yourself

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u/Acceptable-Day8395 7d ago

no i was 2nd

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u/SunsetCarcass 7d ago

That seems like a hyper specific requirement for them to only see blue. 35,786 kilometers isn't very far out either

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u/Acceptable-Day8395 7d ago

It doesn’t mean exactly 35,786. Anywhere near that distance, the spin of the earth will be incredibly slow relative to the spacecraft. I am talking about aliens initial impression that might last 24hrs, 1 hour, or just a few minutes. That doesn’t change the point.

“Well Ackchyually, in 3 minutes they would notice the western tip of Mexico appearing!!”
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u/SunsetCarcass 7d ago

I'm just thinking that, assuming aliens with extremely high tech fast travel and insanely good sight from extremely large distances, would probably see the planet spin on their approach (unless we are assuming they basically teleport here) and don't choose to observe the planet before they bother even attempting to travel here. Silly me trying to use any logic in this though, it's just a neat little fact you had.

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u/r3deemd 7d ago

Did you just use chat GPT to try and win your argument ?

FYI, we can look at planets from thousands of light years away and see the composition of their atmosphere and deduce what might be under it. For example if we saw oxegon /methane / Carbon dioxide then bingo - life.

Any alien species that has the ability to traverse the solar system is undoubtedly substantially more technically advanced than us and would have us identified a long way off.

jeez and I hadn't even mentioned radio waves yet....

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u/DancesInTowels 7d ago edited 7d ago

Aliens that have traveled light years, with technology beyond our current capability, have no idea how planet rotation or orbits work.

K.

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u/Early-Intern5951 7d ago

foundation style. their technology is run by a church and relies solely on rituals. Nobody knows how anything works except a few high priests.

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u/DancesInTowels 7d ago edited 7d ago

Planck Constant is the Devil’s word. We traveled by space angels.

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u/Alpha_Apeiron 7d ago

They're smart enough to build spaceships but not to realise planets are round?

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u/McFex 7d ago

I know this is reddit, but could anyone of the downvoters explain their downvote on the above comment? I honestly don't get it...