Where would aliens really land?

they might like fish or be aquatic aliens...

aquatic aliens who arrived here in a flying fish tank.

lol.

cheers.

Eastern Kansas - flat.

touchdownterry wrote:

flat earth.

Look up Eric Dubay, this is not a joke/troll.

At the pas de calais.

touchdownterry wrote:

Eastern Kansas - flat.

Western Kansas is way flatter.

Wondering wanderer wrote:

In the movies aliens usually land in the country which made the film ;-)

But seriously, where would they really land? Depends on how much research they did before but here are some possibiliites

1. In the ocean - most of the globe is water so makes sense to control the biggest resource (also they might like fish or be aquatic aliens).

2. Somewhere to take central control of the biggest landmass which is Eurasafrica, so probably middle east or perhaps high ground just overlooking it like the caucasus? Harder to counter attack.

3. If they did research and intercepted comms etc maybe China (biggest population, has a leader who rules for life rather than transient weak leaders elsewhere so ultra powerful).

They would undoubtedly land on Uranus.

I feel like hostile aliens would most likely end humanity before touching down and diplomatic ones would most likely have the courtesy to reach out from a distance first.

Cottonshirt wrote:

they might like fish or be aquatic aliens...

aquatic aliens who arrived here in a flying fish tank.

lol.

cheers.

What makes air so special that traveling through space in a giant tank of oxygen is any less weird?

There is no chance that any being with the technological capacity to travel to our planet wouldn't destroy us.

Kinghobbyjogger wrote:

touchdownterry wrote:

Eastern Kansas - flat.

Western Kansas is way flatter.

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where there is little cloud coverage. We wouldnt land in a storm

Gravy wrote:

There is no chance that any being with the technological capacity to travel to our planet wouldn't destroy us.

Not sure I believe that. There may be new evidence for primitive life on Europa... we have the technology to travel there, but we aren't trying to Clorox the potential algae from the planet.

Apophis99 wrote:

Wondering wanderer wrote:

In the movies aliens usually land in the country which made the film ;-)

But seriously, where would they really land? Depends on how much research they did before but here are some possibiliites

1. In the ocean - most of the globe is water so makes sense to control the biggest resource (also they might like fish or be aquatic aliens).

2. Somewhere to take central control of the biggest landmass which is Eurasafrica, so probably middle east or perhaps high ground just overlooking it like the caucasus? Harder to counter attack.

3. If they did research and intercepted comms etc maybe China (biggest population, has a leader who rules for life rather than transient weak leaders elsewhere so ultra powerful).

They would undoubtedly land on Uranus.

Which is well known as a gassy giant.

Africa is freeking gigantic. From wherever in space, that's basically the "land" you see on earth. The answer to this question, though, is in an ocean.

What makes air so special that traveling through space in a giant tank of oxygen is any less weird?

well, for one thing, air is a lot lighter than water, so there's that.

which means you need way more fuel to fly 60 million kilometres in a tank of water.

and, your explanation of what these aquatic aliens built their spaceship out of, construction methods, design features, control technology, communication and so forth should all be highly amusing.

what kind of rocket motor is a fish going to make?

and what about the type of fuel they are using and how an aquatic animal extracted that fuel out of their planet and made a tank to store it in, and so forth... all while under water.

it's not really about breathing. it's about the very limited number of other things you can do in that environment.

cheers.

Cottonshirt wrote:

they might like fish or be aquatic aliens...

aquatic aliens who arrived here in a flying fish tank.

lol.

cheers.

I'm pretty sure the aliens encountered in 'Martin Magnus, Planet Rover' were squid like creatures. But its about 45 years since I read it so I may be wrong ;-)

An alien walks into a bar, and orders a million beers.

'Well all right,' the bartender says, 'come back tomorrow, I'll have them ready for you.'

So the bartender spends all night pouring a million beers, and the alien comes back the next day, as agreed.

'That'll be three million dollars' the bartender says.

The alien draws his wallet and responds: 'Can you break a zork?'

Gravy wrote:

There is no chance that any being with the technological capacity to travel to our planet wouldn't destroy us.

What makes you think that? The beings who could travel here are just as likely to be effected by complex political institutions as us. They may have laws which prevent our destruction. The situation they are in may make it a better option to merely exploit or enslave us. Or alternately, they could establish relations with us. The question is what is their interest in coming here: resources, sapient beings, or land? If humanity developed the capacity for rapid interstellar travel, do you really think we'd exterminate the first species we came across, unless they were harmful?

Memories from childhood wrote:

Cottonshirt wrote:

aquatic aliens who arrived here in a flying fish tank.

lol.

cheers.

I'm pretty sure the aliens encountered in 'Martin Magnus, Planet Rover' were squid like creatures. But its about 45 years since I read it so I may be wrong ;-)

They were the same in Arrival which came out 2 years ago.

Cottonshirt maybe underestimates the ability of water creatures figuring stuff out.

The funny thing is that same people who believe in aliens landing on Earth also refuse to believe that we landed on the moon.

The degree of difficulty to travel to Earth from some habitable planet can’t be overstated. You wouldn’t have the technology to get this far and then crash. And if something managed to get this far, they would orbit and collect data, not land. Orbiting is a hell of a lot easier than landing.

They would also, however, collect unemployed yokels with low IQs from small towns across the US for experimentation.