How would you get home?

Just one question, if they have the ability to transport you back to your planet, then you think they would be smart enough to known where all the intelligent life is in the galaxy
 
fordman84 said:
Suppose you were somehow instantly transported to another planet in another solar system. This planet has intelligent life, you can survive just fine, and they can understand your language without any issue. They have the technology to get you back to earth...but you need to tell them where that is.

How are you going to do it? I read some astronomers once explain how you would navigate your way back home, but considering how everything I know about space and our place in this universe is dependent on the perspective I have here on this planet...it was kind of anxiety inducing.
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Without either advanced knowledge of astronomy or some decent knowledge of astrophysics, you're probably screwed. You'd be otherwise relying on the aliens' knowledge of your home system being greater than your own.

It's probably best just to stay put and enjoy the new planet's 3-titted green women.
 
BadMotoWeazal said:
Just one question, if they have the ability to transport you back to your planet, then you think they would be smart enough to known where all the intelligent life is in the galaxy
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A question back to you, after spending your life here would consider this planet as very high up on the "list of intelligent life"?
 
Just replace all nouns with “Marklar” and they’ll know where to send me

 
Mofo said:
Without either advanced knowledge of astronomy or some decent knowledge of astrophysics, you're probably screwed. You'd be otherwise relying on the aliens' knowledge of your home system being greater than your own.

It's probably best just to stay put and enjoy the new planet's 3-titted green women.
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Most answers I've read start with using pulsars to determine how to get back. But that falls apart usually because pulsar speed depends on distance and decays over time.
 
fordman84 said:
Most answers I've read start with using pulsars to determine how to get back. But that falls apart usually because pulsar speed depends on distance and decays over time.
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Position in the galaxy matters, because it's not even clear that the aliens can even image the Earth to know what Saturn, Jupiter, Earth etc., look like. You either have the knowledge that the Earth is X distance from multiple pulsars and relative distances to what the aliens have access to, or you don't even have a useful starting point.

It would be like taking a lost 3-yr-old from the Amazon, transporting them to Northern Siberia and having some Yakut herder tasked with returning them home.
 
fordman84 said:
A question back to you, after spending your life here would consider this planet as very high up on the "list of intelligent life"?
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Now that you put it that way…. I believe you’re right. This is not an intelligent planet. That may be why aliens haven’t been back or have never been here in the first place.
 
BadMotoWeazal said:
Now that you put it that way…. I believe you’re right. This is not an intelligent planet. That may be why aliens haven’t been back or have never been here in the first place.
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We are the thunder dome.
 
Maybe there is no highly intelligent life, beyond our understanding, because they suffer constant mass extinctions. So no matter the life form, they can only evolve and grow so much before an asteroid, or star death, or who knows what else, comes along every so often as all planets tend to absorb matter from the cosmos. Just like Earth. We think we're so fucking smart and constantly fuck everything up.

Wait, I'm stoned. I need to stop. Fuck off
 
Why would I come back to this shit hole dying planet. We’ve ruined it with pollution and over population.
 
Idiots.

Just stop & ask for directions.
 
I'd call for an UFO-ber to take me home....
 
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