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Either it's aliens, or its not aliens. Its 50/50

  • 11.29.2012 6:11 PM PDT


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non aerodynamic shapes

Because aliens wouldn't be dumb enough to know how to travel space, but not how to reduce friction.

There's no friction in space. Learn basic science.
There is no AIR RESISTANCE in space: there is friction.
Learn basic science.

Also, aren't UFO's supposed to be spotted in the atmosphere, where this is air resistance?

Why does it matter where they're spotted. And the friction in space is near zero. Stop acting like you know what you're talking about.
So what you are attempting to tell me is that the third law of physics (every action has an equal and opposite reaction, the cause of friction) does not apply in space?

There may be no air resistance in space (no air), thus aerodynamics do not apply, but there is certainly friction.

OP, I'm not too sure that you understand friction. When you rub your hands together, you make heat. Why? Friction. Why don't you slip whenever you walk? Because friction keeps your feet from sliding around.

If you are claiming that friction does not exist in space, why would it even be possible to live on a spacecraft? Without friction, anyone leaving the planet (in a spacecraft, of course), would die because their bodies would no longer be able to function without friction. The heart for example, would not be able to pump blood, it would just slide around without friction.

Sorry, OP, but you are mistaken in your assumption that one of the basic laws that governs out universe does not exist in space.

  • 11.29.2012 6:12 PM PDT

''Hell is other people.''

I saw a bird in the sky. I didn't recognize it. ALIENS HAVE INVADED.

  • 11.29.2012 6:13 PM PDT

Derp

aliens exist. just talk to my neighbor Pedro... but yeah, although you people think that in all the universe, aliens live close enough to us to come hover above our cities and then leave?

  • 11.29.2012 6:16 PM PDT
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Well, here we are. I guess that it was destined to come to this.

Posted by: Breathing Roses
You have the worst comprehension level I've seen in a very long time. The friction in space is, like I said many times before, negligible. This is why objects in space can go very long distances with momentum alone. You clearly don't understand how the vacuum of space works.

Psssssst.

You are saying "friction in space" but appear to be referring to "friction FROM space".

  • 11.29.2012 6:18 PM PDT

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Because, most are proven to be something they are not.

Back in the 1950's, people thought they saw a UFO when they saw classified military aircraft........

Whos to say the things these people are seeing are once again classified aircraft.

  • 11.29.2012 6:18 PM PDT

In memory of those fallen in the defense of Earth and her colonies.

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Posted by: Breathing Roses
You have the worst comprehension level I've seen in a very long time. The friction in space is, like I said many times before, negligible. This is why objects in space can go very long distances with momentum alone. You clearly don't understand how the vacuum of space works.

Psssssst.

You are saying "friction in space" but appear to be referring to "friction FROM space".


Oh you!!

  • 11.29.2012 6:19 PM PDT

They say that an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. Good thing justice is blind.

Aliens traveled millions of light years without dying of age or starvation, radiation, or slamming into some.celestial body, but the moment they get to Hicktown, USA, their Campbell's Chicken Noodles Soup ship fails and crashes because they hit a water tower.

  • 11.29.2012 6:20 PM PDT

In memory of those fallen in the defense of Earth and her colonies.

March 3, 2553


Posted by: magicmagininja
aliens exist. just talk to my neighbor Pedro... but yeah, although you people think that in all the universe, aliens live close enough to us to come hover above our cities and then leave?


The universe has been around a very long time, who is to say there isnt a million or billion year old civilisation out there?

Anyway, Im more with you - I dont think they just fly around our planet and leave.

  • 11.29.2012 6:21 PM PDT
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Well, here we are. I guess that it was destined to come to this.

Posted by: Breathing Roses
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Posted by: Breathing Roses
You have the worst comprehension level I've seen in a very long time. The friction in space is, like I said many times before, negligible. This is why objects in space can go very long distances with momentum alone. You clearly don't understand how the vacuum of space works.

Psssssst.

You are saying "friction in space" but appear to be referring to "friction FROM space".

I'm talking about the various pieces of matter in space that can cause friction, which isn't much.

You're not being very specific and not phrasing well.

What you mean (at least based on my understanding) and are trying to say is that the interstellar medium (another word for "space with the occasional particle") offers virtually no resistance to an object moving through it. So in effect, inertia is nearly perfect... well, closer than we've ever gotten here on the surface of a planet.

But it is HOW you are phrasing that is allowing others to tell you that you are mistaken. Because what you are saying (not your intended meaning, but the words you are choosing) is factually incomplete and incorrect.

[Edited on 11.29.2012 6:24 PM PST]

  • 11.29.2012 6:23 PM PDT
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I'd be interested to know if vacuum fluctuations can cause friction (I want to say yes?). Nevertheless, this whole friction debate is pointless. It's clearly negligible in the current context.

  • 11.29.2012 6:24 PM PDT


Posted by: WitchDocktor
I saw a large bird at night the other day.

Was that an alien?
No, it was superman.

  • 11.29.2012 6:25 PM PDT

They say that an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. Good thing justice is blind.


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Aliens traveled millions of light years without dying of age or starvation, radiation, or slamming into some.celestial body, but the moment they get to Hicktown, USA, their Campbell's Chicken Noodles Soup ship fails and crashes because they hit a water tower.

I have no idea what you're talking about.

I think we both know...

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  • 11.29.2012 6:26 PM PDT

I honestly believe aliens exist, could be whole civilizations or some bacteria on mars, but UFO's defiantly aren't aliens. Every time I watch a stupid alien video its a circle of light dancing in the sky, which can be cause from thousands of sources light is still a strange phenomena that is not completely grasped. I dont even understand the logical order a brain has to follow from a light in the sky to aliens.

  • 11.29.2012 6:31 PM PDT
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Well, here we are. I guess that it was destined to come to this.

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I'd be interested to know if vacuum fluctuations can cause friction (I want to say yes?). Nevertheless, this whole friction debate is pointless. It's clearly negligible in the current context.

At sufficient velocity through the interstellar medium? The "rarity" of physical particles would be much less so and the high-energy impact of them would essentially become ionizing radiation, sort of a "cosmic-ray" headwind.

As to quantum events? Since they happen in such infinitesimally small time frames, I don't believe that they would interact with non-quantum objects/events. Though the idea is worth pondering.

  • 11.29.2012 6:34 PM PDT
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Well, here we are. I guess that it was destined to come to this.

Posted by: Breathing Roses
You're not being very specific and not phrasing well.

What you mean (at least based on my understanding) and are trying to say is that the interstellar medium (another word for "space with the occasional particle") offers virtually no resistance to an object moving through it. So in effect, inertia is nearly perfect... well, closer than we've ever gotten here on the surface of a planet.

But it is HOW you are phrasing that is allowing others to tell you that you are mistaken. Because what you are saying (not your intended meaning, but the words you are choosing) is factually incomplete and incorrect.

I don't see how I'm wording it wrong.

If you cannot tell the difference between your phrasing/word choice and mine, then I can't assist. You will likely to continue to become frustrated and believe that people are stupid or disagreeing with you, when in fact they are disagreeing with the imprecision and inaccuracy of how you are choosing to say what you are trying to convey.

In other words, you're not speaking their language, and they aren't going to bother to make assumptions and try to translate what you are saying unclearly.

[Edited on 11.29.2012 6:40 PM PST]

  • 11.29.2012 6:38 PM PDT

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No, acnboy. Spartain Ken 15 is a lesser being. Much like the bacteria that lives in your shi­t.
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My shi­t bacteria takes offense to that comparison.

Don't make me lel. You won't like me when I lel.

Posted by: Breathing Rosesthis is getting old

seriously recon you must have banned one of this guy's alts along the way

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  • 11.29.2012 6:41 PM PDT

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