The Science™?

Saturday 20 August 2011 - Filed under Uncategorized

It’s official. Government sponsored science is CLEARLY fucking useless if this is the kind of shit that its Top Men™ come up with. Via The Guardian:

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 a Nasa-affiliated scientist and colleagues at 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.

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The authors warn that extraterrestrials may be wary of civilisations that expand very rapidly, as these may be prone to destroy other life as they grow, just as humans have pushed species to extinction on Earth. In the most extreme scenario, aliens might choose to destroy humanity to protect other civilisations.

“A preemptive strike would be particularly likely in the early phases of our expansion because a civilisation may become increasingly difficult to destroy as it continues to expand. Humanity may just now be entering the period in which its rapid civilisational expansion could be detected by an ETI because our expansion is changing the composition of the Earth’s atmosphere, via greenhouse gas emissions,” the report states.

“Green” aliens might object to the environmental damage humans have caused on Earth and wipe us out to save the planet. “These scenarios give us reason to limit our growth and reduce our impact on global ecosystems. It would be particularly important for us to limit our emissions of greenhouse gases, since atmospheric composition can be observed from other planets,” the authors write.

And I’m supposed to put intellectual stock in these guys? I’m supposed to entertain the thought of scientists as somehow being more enlightened and more informed than my myself, yet swallow their “we need to curb greenhouse gases lest we be slain by environmentally conscious aliens” nonsense? This is the shit that I expect on Coast to Coast, not from fucking NASA where I have to pay for this horseshit, then be told that I need to fall in line because it’s, you know, The Science™.

2011-08-20  »  madlibertarianguy