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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 pH3ra@lemmy.ml to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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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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[–] cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] FelipeFelop@discuss.online 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 !

[–] cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 8 months ago

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