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Jehanne · December 22, 2022 at 2:54 pm

A Foucault pendulum rotates clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere, counterclockwise in the Southern Hemisphere.

**The Grand Nudger** · (This post was last modified: December 22, 2022 at 3:10 pm by The Grand Nudger.)

(December 22, 2022 at 2:35 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote:
(December 22, 2022 at 2:18 pm)Jehanne Wrote: If you look at the Sun (not directly, but close to it), you are looking in the direction of the center of our Galaxy. The Sun is in Sagittarius. Now, if aliens do invade our World to conquer it, their conquest will likely be in December as they will come from the center of the Galaxy (that's where most of the stars are) and will use the Sun to hide their approach, until it is too late for us to do anything about it.

any alien that can come here from the inner reaches of the galaxy don’t need to hide behind anything, they came come with their dong hanging out in our full view all the way and there is absolutely nothing we can do about it.

Unlike what is insinuated by reams of ridiculous military sci-fi novels in which space marines somehow even the odds, if any alien has the ability to come here, then our doom is appointed the moment they formulate the intention to eradicate us.

They don't need to, but they would...because, as you note, they're just that good at shit. I do, though, think that you're ignoring plenty of great examples where a technologically superior enemy gets absolutely trounced by primitives. One hopes, for the alien invaders sake, that they don't forget similar lessons their own history might have imparted. I bet you could suddenly remember them if I said "the united states"....

Jerkoff

Bring it ET, earth goes hard - there's nothing left on this rock without a mound of wrecked bodies beneath it.

**BrianSoddingBoru4** · December 22, 2022 at 3:39 pm

(December 22, 2022 at 2:53 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: well, if you want to know where the nearest supermassive black hole to earth is, then knowing where the center of the galaxy is helps a lot.

I don’t.

Boru

Anomalocaris · December 22, 2022 at 7:36 pm

(December 22, 2022 at 3:04 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote:
(December 22, 2022 at 2:35 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: any alien that can come here from the inner reaches of the galaxy don’t need to hide behind anything, they came come with their dong hanging out in our full view all the way and there is absolutely nothing we can do about it.

Unlike what is insinuated by reams of ridiculous military sci-fi novels in which space marines somehow even the odds, if any alien has the ability to come here, then our doom is appointed the moment they formulate the intention to eradicate us.

They don't need to, but they would...because, as you note, they're just that good at shit. I do, though, think that you're ignoring plenty of great examples where a technologically superior enemy gets absolutely trounced by primitives. One hopes, for the alien invaders sake, that they don't forget similar lessons their own history might have imparted. I bet you could suddenly remember them if I said "the united states"....

Bring it ET, earth goes hard - there's nothing left on this rock without a mound of wrecked bodies beneath it.

carefully note that superior enemy almost always wins in the end unless the primitives are strongly supported by another technologically superior ally. without an ally, the options primitive has two choices:

die alone, or die at the same time as any brief flash of their resistance glory dies.

**arewethereyet** · December 22, 2022 at 7:40 pm

I don't care if the sun points a certain direction or if it doesn't. With all the dark, dreary days around here lately, I just hope it manages to peer through the clouds for a part of the day. Otherwise, I get that SAD crap and I don't need an extra layer of depression.

Jehanne · December 22, 2022 at 7:52 pm

That our Solar System's rotation about the galactic center has been detected ought to cheer your spirits!

VLBI measurement of the secular aberration drift

Angrboda · December 22, 2022 at 8:07 pm

Gawdzilla Sama · December 22, 2022 at 8:11 pm

(December 22, 2022 at 2:18 pm)Jehanne Wrote:
(December 22, 2022 at 1:42 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: The sun has an north/south axis. One of the poles points somewhere all the time.

If you look at the Sun (not directly, but close to it), you are looking in the direction of the center of our Galaxy. The Sun is in Sagittarius. Now, if aliens do invade our World to conquer it, their conquest will likely be in December as they will come from the center of the Galaxy (that's where most of the stars are) and will use the Sun to hide their approach, until it is too late for us to do anything about it.

At what point in our orbit does a continuously changing set of points on the sun's equator point at the center of our galaxy?

Anomalocaris · (This post was last modified: December 22, 2022 at 9:37 pm by Anomalocaris.)

The line that passes though the centers of both earth and sun at this moment, if extended 26000 light years, will just barely graze the central bulge of Milky Way galaxy. To say it will pass through the actual center of Milky Way is stretching it. The line will miss the actual supermassive black hole center of Milky Way by almost 5000 light years.

Gawdzilla Sama · December 22, 2022 at 11:12 pm

The alignment would be transitory given that the Earth rotates around the Sun.

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