Yes, very kind of them.
The navy drone thing makes total sense… they know people are going to see them… why doesnt the DoD and Petagon just say we are testing some things?
Why not test them somewhere more remote? They coukd do this in Alaska and nobody would know.
Here’s what the Ptero Dynamics XP4 looks like:
Shouldn’t they be testing in Area 61, has Donald announced he’s building a dome around New Jersey yet, to keep the illegal aliens out yet?
Guaranteed. As we all know from every alien invasion movie, they only attack cities with world famous landmarks that avarage Americans might somewhat recognise, so we’re pretty safe in Melbourne.
I’d like a 3 legged one in our midfield who keeps his feet under pressure and punts it 110 metres.
I guess if they are gonna attack Melbourne, it’s the MCG, so we are better off playing at Docklands and we’ll be safe. The Essendon board had foresight in that docklands deal.
It’s always perplexing: the Southern Hemisphere is closest to the galactic centre, so that is logically where aliens would come first. But no, they always have go to NYC first.
But over most of the last 60,000 years if any aliens had visited, the most obvious signs of human activity would have been the smoke from the fires that aboriginal people used to manage Country.
You can still see that these days flying to Darwin at the right time of the year.
The scenes when one of those city-sized ships from Independence Day fires its weapon at Revs
In 100 million years or so the northern hemisphere will be closer, so maybe they just haven’t allowed properly for the travel time when they booked their destination flight airports.
umm, no. There will still be the same alignment with the galactic centre.
Not true, methinks. It’s the solar system’s galactic “seasons” in play. The sun’s magnetic poles are tilted considerably relative to the galactic orbit elliptic plane , just as the earth’s is to the solar orbit (which of course is what creates the closer hemisphere phenomenon). So as I visualise it, half way through the galactic orbit the earth north pole will start facing the galactic centre?
There will be so many geomagnetic reversals within the next 100 million years, how will you know which pole would be which at the time?
Speaking of which, if we’re in the process of geomagnetic reversal now, can we refer to Australia as ‘up over’ when it’s complete?
That’s if we survive the solar radiation during the process. By survive, I mean the interruption to internet and power grids more than any increase in cancer etc.
That’s all true but essentially it’s a nomenclature issue rather than a geographic change ( unless Velikovsky was actually correct) .
The current northern hemisphere will become the southern hemisphere in a magnetic sense but it’ll still be the side of the planet facing inwards towards the galactic centre rather than the current outwards posture ( unless something happens to earth and/or the sun over the next 100 million years or so )…
And either way, the sun only has about 20 trips around the Milky Way before we all collide into the Andromeda galaxy and , err, everything changes 
. So use those trips wisely 
By the time that happens we will be burnt to a crisp in about 1.3 billion years as the sun becomes a red giant.
Long before it becomes a red giant.
We may have as little as 500 million years in which to relocate to Mars and/or the Jovian moons etc as the habitable zone expands outwards into the middle solar system.
This type of discussion, and a recent rewatching of Interstellar , never fails to have me questioning the meaning of everything, lol. And no, I don’t think it’s “42”
But back to those drones , hey.
Any chance of Essendon winning a final before that happens?
I mean that Brian Cox doco that ends with the heat death of the universe is pretty nihilistic