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  • You can't tell me "Global Warmers" aren't whacked!

    Ya...their heads on right...
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    A team of American researchers have produced a range of scenarios in which aliens could attack the earth, and curiously, one revolves around climate change.

    They speculate that extraterrestrial environmentalists could be so appalled by our planet-polluting ways that they view us as a threat to the intergalactic ecosystem and decide to destroy us.

    The thought-provoking scenario is one of many envisaged in a joint study by Penn State and the NASA Planetary Science Division, entitled "Would Contact with Extraterrestrials Benefit or Harm Humanity? A Scenario Analysis."

    It divides projected close encounters into "neutral," those that cause mankind "unintentional harm" and, more worryingly, those in which aliens do us "intentional harm."

    Extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) "could attack and kill us, enslave us, or potentially even eat us. ETI could attack us out of selfishness or out of a more altruistic desire to protect the galaxy from us. We might be a threat to the galaxy just as we are a threat to our home planet," it warns.

    One such scenario is the stuff of many a Hollywood blockbuster, a "standard fight-to-win conflict: a war of the worlds." But another might resonate more with fans of Al Gore's documentary film "An Inconvenient truth."

    It speculates that aliens, worried we might inflict the damage done to our own planet on others, might "seek to preemptively destroy our civilization in order to protect other civilizations from us."

    "Humanity may just now be entering the period in which its rapid civilizational expansion could be detected by an ETI because our expansion is changing the composition of Earth's atmosphere (e.g. via greenhouse gas emissions), which therefore changes the spectral signature of Earth," the study says.

    "While it is difficult to estimate the likelihood of this scenario, it should at a minimum give us pause as we evaluate our expansive tendencies."

    But before we brace ourselves for alien annihilation, the report suggests things could turn in humanity's favor.

    "As we continue the search for extraterrestrials into the future, perhaps our thinking about the different modes of contact will help human civilization to avoid collapse and achieve long-term survival," it suggests.
    http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/...#ixzz1VVdWqHbJ
    "Self-government won't work without self-discipline." - Paul Harvey

  • #2
    That is extremely hilarious. And I could totally see my far left lesbian friend buying it hook, line, and sinker.
    Last edited by mikec; 08-20-2011, 07:03 AM. Reason: left out the key word "my"
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    • #3
      Or, we could look at it as the glass is half-full...

      The aliens come to take over our planet and resources, but see how much "we fucked it up," and just pass us by since it wouldn't be worth their time.

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      • #4
        their parents should demand their college money back.

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        • #5
          There is one big correction needed for that article.

          NASA had NOTHING to do with the study.

          Shawn Domagal-Goldman is the only person with any association with NASA and this is what he had to say:


          So here’s the deal, folks. Yes, I work at NASA. It’s also true that I work at NASA Headquarters. But I am not a civil servant… just a lowly postdoc. More importantly, this paper has nothing to do with my work there. I wasn’t funded for it, nor did I spend any of my time at work or any resources provided to me by NASA to participate in this effort. There are at least a hundred more important and urgent things to be done on any given work day than speculate on the different scenarios for contact with alien civilizations… However, in my free time (what precious little I have), I didn’t mind working on stuff like this every once in a while. Why? Well, because I’m a geek and stuff like this is fun to think about. Unfortunately, there is not enough time for fun. Indeed, I felt guilty at times because this has led to a lack of effort on my part in my interactions with Seth and Jacob. Beyond adding some comments here or there, I did very little for the paper.

          But I do admit to making a horrible mistake. It was an honest one, and a naive one… but it was a mistake nonetheless. I should not have listed my affiliation as “NASA Headquarters.” I did so because that is my current academic affiliation. But when I did so I did not realize the full implications that has. I’m deeply sorry for that, but it was a mistake born out of carelessness and inexperience and nothing more. I will do what I can to rectify this, including distributing this post to the Guardian, Drudge, and NASA Watch. Please help me spread this post to the other places you may see the article inaccurately attributed to NASA.

          One last thing: I stand by the analysis in the paper. Is such a scenario likely? I don’t think so. But it’s one of a myriad of possible (albeit unlikely) scenarios, and the point of the paper was to review them. But remember – and this is key – it’s me standing for the paper… not the full weight of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. For anything I have done to mis-convey that to those covering this story, to the public, or to the fine employees of NASA, I apologize.”

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            • #7
              Maybe our government should send trillions in aid to these aliens so that we may stay safe.
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              • #8
                What comes after trillions?
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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Chas_svo View Post
                  What comes after trillions?
                  Obamillions.

                  Stevo
                  Originally posted by SSMAN
                  ...Welcome to the land of "Fuck it". No body cares, and if they do, no body cares.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Chas_svo View Post
                    What comes after trillions?
                    Quadrillions
                    Originally posted by stevo View Post
                    Obamillions.

                    Stevo
                    LMAO!!!

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by stevo View Post
                      Obamillions.

                      Stevo
                      Hahahahahahahaha
                      Originally posted by BradM
                      But, just like condoms and women's rights, I don't believe in them.
                      Originally posted by Leah
                      In other news: Brent's meat melts in your mouth.

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                      • #12
                        Even if there are aliens, I'm not really interested in their opinion.

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by StanleyTweedle View Post
                          Even if there are aliens, I'm not really interested in their opinion.
                          Clearly (and not surprisingly), you missed the entire point of the paper and the thread. Well done, sir!
                          Originally posted by Broncojohnny
                          HOORAY ME and FUCK YOU!

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