Posted on 08/27/2011 10:30:17 AM PDT by Paladins Prayer
Three years after the release of the remake The Day the Earth Stood Still, a team of American researchers has made the films theme a scientific theory: They are suggesting that an alien race might destroy man to stop our release of greenhouse-gas emissions and global warming.
Writes Fox News:
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."
While the idea of meeting our end at the green hands of anti-CO2 aliens may be more laugh-provoking than thought-provoking, another scenario in the harmful category is only slightly less amusing. Writes The Guardian, They [the extraterrestrials] might invite humanity to join the 'Galactic Club' only for the entry requirements to be too bureaucratic and tedious for humans to bother with.
Call this the Barack Obama Scenario.
(Excerpt) Read more at thenewamerican.com ...
“Scientists Say Aliens May Destroy Mankind Over Global Warming”
Seems kind of redundant - weren’t we going to destroy ourselves via global warming?
Not real impressed with these aliens if they haven’t even invented popcorn yet.
I was thinking that was the "Wetback Effect". ;-)
Ghosthunters didn't seem to provoke them either.
We just have to try harder and lower the standards further.
'They blew up Congress....Ha Ha Ha Ha!'
Scientists, eh?
I think what they were trying to say is that super advanced aliens might monitor very rapid changes in a planet’s atmosphere as a sign of technological advancement. They would then do something about it, like seeing mouse poop in the pantry and setting out poison.
Not that I buy any of it, especially the liberal enviro garbage that is stuck to it, but it’s neat to think about. I think radio waves might be a surer way to do it. You might have aliens who don’t mess with their environment too much but who still advance somehow.
Freegards
OK..TIME FOR SOME BUDGET CUTS.
These people have to much time and to much money. Cut their budgets.
END THE EPA NOW!
Right. A scientist would not be making these ignoramus assumptions.
What if the aliens need CO2 to survive? We could be selling it to them. Problem solved.
The space aliens have already taken over our government.
Are they the ones that performed brain surgery on Obama?
Because out of the millions of stars in our own Galaxy, not to mention the billions and billions and billions of other galaxies, none of them have noticed our Star, little lone our planet. It is doubtful that other 'advanced' civilizations could 'see' our planet, even if they wanted to.
And it's not like our star has gone Supernova, which is usually what would attract the attention of any 'alien' astronomers.
Besides, it is likely they are so far distant from us that considering 'traveling' to Earth would be an almost 'infinite' journey , just like it would to us, and they have better things to do.
Who knew?
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