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."

[vannrox]

Yah want proof? How about walking up to them and shaking their hand. Is that good enough for ya?

[wgmalabama]

Good point. I think your right. I see the social / genetic bottleneck we are going to hit over the next 200 years.