by Ann » Sun Jul 23, 2017 5:47 am
De58te wrote: The Pyramids at Giza will have crumpled into dust, mankind's cities will have crumbled away, yet this evidence of the presence of human beings will outlast everything else. These footprints, that drag mark and cable, will say to visiting aliens a billion years from now - Human kind was here!
I really like your way of putting that, even if it might not be strictly true according to Chris.
But to a spacefaring race of aliens, it can't be too impressive to think that humanity made it to the Moon. When I put together my own model of the inner Solar system, using a round table cloth to represent the Sun, small cotton balls to represent Venus, the Earth and Mars, and little yellow peas to represent Mercury and the Moon, three things struck me:
1) How breathtakingly huge even the inner Solar System is.
2) How unbelievably, incredibly, impossibly small the terrestrial planets are compared with the sizes of their orbits, and how terribly far the inner planets are from one another.
3) How ridiculously near the Moon is to the Earth.
To see what I mean,
please check this out!!!
So a spacefaring race that has made it all the way to the Earth from another solar system isn't likely to be bowled over by the fact that humanity made the tiny hop from their home planet to their satellite Moon.
But perhaps, if our current civilization is destroyed somehow, and the current age and its technology is completely forgotten, and humanity manage to slowly regain its technological and spacefaring ability so that they can return to the Moon, perhaps many millennia after Apollo 11... Think of their surprise if
they were to find footprints on the Moon, when they thought they were the first visitors there.
Of course, finding this on the Moon would be even more impressive:
Click to play embedded YouTube video.
Ann
[quote="De58te"] The Pyramids at Giza will have crumpled into dust, mankind's cities will have crumbled away, yet this evidence of the presence of human beings will outlast everything else. These footprints, that drag mark and cable, will say to visiting aliens a billion years from now - Human kind was here![/quote]
I really like your way of putting that, even if it might not be strictly true according to Chris.
But to a spacefaring race of aliens, it can't be too impressive to think that humanity made it to the Moon. When I put together my own model of the inner Solar system, using a round table cloth to represent the Sun, small cotton balls to represent Venus, the Earth and Mars, and little yellow peas to represent Mercury and the Moon, three things struck me:
1) How breathtakingly huge even the inner Solar System is.
2) How unbelievably, incredibly, impossibly small the terrestrial planets are compared with the sizes of their orbits, and how terribly far the inner planets are from one another.
3) How ridiculously near the Moon is to the Earth.
To see what I mean, [b][size=150][i][color=#FF00FF][url=http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html]please check this out[/url][/color][/i][/size][/b]!!!
So a spacefaring race that has made it all the way to the Earth from another solar system isn't likely to be bowled over by the fact that humanity made the tiny hop from their home planet to their satellite Moon.
But perhaps, if our current civilization is destroyed somehow, and the current age and its technology is completely forgotten, and humanity manage to slowly regain its technological and spacefaring ability so that they can return to the Moon, perhaps many millennia after Apollo 11... Think of their surprise if [i]they[/i] were to find footprints on the Moon, when they thought they were the first visitors there.
Of course, finding this on the Moon would be even more impressive:
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oU4Rk0NATNs[/youtube]
Ann