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What if aliens haven't visited us yet because they keep misspelling "Earth" in the navigator? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Maybe they keep typing "Erth" and this brings them to the goddamn Triangulum Galaxy or some sht

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

So the aliens are gonna use english, you certain?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

What else are they going to use? Venusian? Spanish? Let's not be silly

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If they haven’t visited us how will they know what the planet is called and how to spell it?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Hey how do we know the name of planets like Kepler 22.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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 !

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Since the universe changes, you would need at least 4 dimensions to locate earth.