Green Lantern and Justice League of America
Posted on 08/18/2011 6:06:21 PM PDT by rellimpank
It may not rank as the most compelling reason to curb greenhouse gases, but reducing our emissions might just save humanity from a pre-emptive alien attack, scientists claim.
Watching from afar, extraterrestrial beings might view changes in Earth's atmosphere as symptomatic of a civilisation growing out of control – and take drastic action to keep us from becoming a more serious threat, the researchers explain.
This highly speculative scenario is one of several described by scientists at Nasa and Pennsylvania State University that, while considered unlikely, they say could play out were humans and alien life to make contact at some point in the future.
Shawn Domagal-Goldman of Nasa's Planetary Science Division and his colleagues compiled a list of plausible outcomes that could unfold in the aftermath of a close encounter, to help humanity "prepare for actual contact".
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
Those Brits are watching too much Dr. Who.
Now I’m convinced.
these scientists work for Al Gore?
. .. so fork it over, you capitalist, imperialist fools ...
. . Or E.T. will get you.
Amazing what people who have to direction will do with tax dollars.
Klaatu.
Barata.
Nikto.
****as symptomatic of a civilisation growing out of control – and take drastic action to keep us from becoming a more serious threat, the researchers explain. ****
Another in an endless series of hopgoblins, all of them immaginary.
Can’t get people on board with our existing propaganda so
let’s come up with some really far out sh**. Let’s scare ‘em. Works every time.
Gosh, E.T. is a democRAT?
Can’t say as I blame if they do,, we are sooooo screwed up......
Finally, a logical argument to stop global warming.
Besides, does’t our government tell us there ‘ain’t no aliens’.
—ping—
Top secret:
Say
“Klaatu Barack Nikto”.
It will work.
Greenhouse gasses?
WHAAAAPFFFFFFFLOLOLOLOL
If the aliens are half as smart as they should be but probably aren’t, they’ll eradicate us before we get past Mars. “Nuke the site from orbit,” so to speak.
Sorry. I’ve read too much SF and am too cynical to believe man will ever get much further than Terra Firma. IF the aliens are smart.
I thought this was a story about Mexicans invading.... Never mind.
How far NASA has fallen.
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