Climate change killed the aliens, and it might kill us too, new simulation suggests

nbc fake news ^ | Jun.07.2018 | Brandon Specktor

[Right_Wing_Madman]

Did climate change already kill all the aliens we've been searching for?

According to astrophysicist Adam Frank, it's certainly a possibility — and whether humans are doomed to the same fate may already be out of our hands.

Frank, a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Rochester in New York, is the lead author of a new paper published May 1 in the journal Astrobiology that aims to take what Frank calls a "10,000-light-year" view of anthropogenic (human-caused) climate change. Using mathematical models based on the disappearance of a real-life lost civilization here on Earth (the former inhabitants of Easter Island), Frank and his colleagues simulated how various alien civilizations might rise and fall if they were to increasingly convert their planet's limited natural resources into energy.

"The laws of physics demand that any young population, building an energy-intensive civilization like ours, is going to have feedback on its planet," Frank said in a statement. "Seeing climate change in this cosmic context may give us better insight into what's happening to us now and how to deal with it."

[JimRed]

Hey, she’s a li’l cutie!

[apillar]

Reminds me of the old joke about the alien Movie "Signs", specifically the scene where the alien can't get through a door, "They figured out how to travel 10,000 light years, but they can't figure out how a doorknob works?!?"

I have a feeling if there really were aliens here they would have the capacity to adjust to environmental changes far better than us...

[Moonman62]

Variations of Malthusianism just won’t go away.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malthusianism

[MrBambaLaMamba]

More likely they were socialists, engaged in genocidal wars, created massive famines through failed economic policies, were enlightened and became homosexuals and then went extinct when their birthrate collapsed.

[madison10]

These people are mental. Seriously.

[beethovenfan]

Publish or perish.

[Larry Lucido]

Should have gotten the Kaiser. Makes the Commando 8 look like a pop gun.

[SaveFerris]

Ah, German engineering.

Like flaming globes! It is just as you prophesied!

[Afterguard]

Best on the internet today! Bravo!!

[WKUHilltopper]

NBC=Nothing But Crap

[oh8eleven]

Did climate change already kill all the aliens ...
Well, maybe video killed the radio star AND all the aliens.

[faithhopecharity]

it didn’t work in 2008

[BBell]

Or smart enough to leave.

[mywholebodyisaweapon]

From Robert Repicky’s Latin textbook (have no idea who he was) purchased at the TG&Y in Abilene, Texas, c. 1970:

“Latin’s a dead language, as dead as it can be.
It killed off all the Romans, and now it’s killing me.”

My guess is he didn’t get an A for originality.

Updated:

“Changing climate’s a dead issue, as dead as it can be.
It killed off all the aliens, and now it’s killing me.”

[M Kehoe]

Climate change killed the radio star.

Did I get that right?

5.56mm

[Billthedrill]

So, a fictional issue among fictional beings in a fictional place caused a purely fictional die-out? What video game was the good Professor playing?

[arrogantsob]

Easter Island was not a civilization to begin with.

[justa-hairyape]

So no aliens evolved on cold planets. Got it. Set beebers to stun.

[GOPJ]

Killed off the unicorns too... and the dragons...

Time to postulate beyond all necessity...

[BBell]