@[email protected] to Showerthoughts • 9 months agoWhat if aliens haven't visited us yet because they keep misspelling "Earth" in the navigator?message-square17fedilinkarrow-up130arrow-down147file-text
arrow-up1-17arrow-down1message-squareWhat if aliens haven't visited us yet because they keep misspelling "Earth" in the navigator?@[email protected] to Showerthoughts • 9 months agomessage-square17fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink8•9 months agoSo the aliens are gonna use english, you certain?
minus-square@[email protected]OPlinkfedilink7•edit-29 months agoWhat else are they going to use? Venusian? Spanish? Let’s not be silly
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•9 months agoIf they haven’t visited us how will they know what the planet is called and how to spell it?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•9 months agoHey how do we know the name of planets like Kepler 22.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•9 months agoThat’s our name for it. If there is a planet or planets circling Kepler 22 they won’t call it Kepler 22. Similarly any aliens won’t call Earth by that name. For example, Klingons might have called Earth yoSpu’bogh QongDaq until they made contact. So aliens wouldn’t type Earth into sat nav but whatever they call it. Now that’s a showerthought !
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•9 months agoSince the universe changes, you would need at least 4 dimensions to locate earth.
So the aliens are gonna use english, you certain?
What else are they going to use? Venusian? Spanish? Let’s not be silly
If they haven’t visited us how will they know what the planet is called and how to spell it?
Hey how do we know the name of planets like Kepler 22.
That’s our name for it. If there is a planet or planets circling Kepler 22 they won’t call it Kepler 22.
Similarly any aliens won’t call Earth by that name. For example, Klingons might have called Earth yoSpu’bogh QongDaq until they made contact.
So aliens wouldn’t type Earth into sat nav but whatever they call it. Now that’s a showerthought !
Since the universe changes, you would need at least 4 dimensions to locate earth.