Aliens may destroy humanity to protect other civilizations, say scientists

"Rising greenhouse emissions may tip off aliens that we are a rapidly expanding threat, warns a report for NASA."

Seriously!?! Do you think NASA actually spent tax dollars on this?

I would actually really preffer to avoid whatever it is that they are smoking!

I worked for gov-mint contractors for a long time and it does not surprise me at all that there are studies like this...unfortunately!

Somebody has been watching the remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still a little too much. No wonder we don't have a replacement for the space shuttle yet. NASA is busy dreaming up "V" scenarios to push their Global Warming Climate Change agenda.

I wonder if NASA would hire me at, let's say $200k/year, for writing similar gibberish? :roll:

NASA doesn't pay that much Mitch...at least the people I know that worked there didn't get paid very well.

Originally posted by Bryan Hancock:
NASA doesn't pay that much Mitch...at least the people I know that worked there didn't get paid very well.

Well, I figured if lifeguards in Newport Beach made 6 figures... :cool:

Well the CDC warned us of zombies,NASA warning us of aliens and I'm waiting for John Connor to warn us of Skynet.

Originally posted by Mitch Kronowit:
Somebody has been watching the remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still a little too much. No wonder we don't have a replacement for the space shuttle yet. NASA is busy dreaming up "V" scenarios to push their Global Warming Climate Change agenda.

I wonder if NASA would hire me at, let's say $200k/year, for writing similar gibberish? :roll:

I figured Gore would have made an appearance already given how many 100 degree days we've had in Texas.

That's funny.

Rather than spend money on that I would like to see the project to Europa happen.

It is one of the ice moons with glacier like ice surface with cracks opening and closing.The scientists believe and underwater ocean is beneath the ice.Where there is water and oxygen there can be forms of life.

The project talks about sending an unmanned submarine into one of the cracks with a camera to explore.

There are literally millions to billions of planets thought to exist.Some mimick the exact conditions of Earth but are too far away with current technology to reach.

I personally do not think we are the only thing out there.The science adds up to existence on other planets.

I find it fascinating but can understand why with the current economic crunch we need to fix the stuff on our own planet before exploring others.

Has anybody seen that new series on Discovery called Curiosity? The last episode was actually about scientists and cosmologists speculating what an alien invasion would be like. For example, why would they come here, how would we detect them, how we could fight them, etc. The whole thing smacked of the mini-series Falling Skies.

Anyhoo, the scientists seemed to agree the only reason aliens would make the huge trek across the cosmos to Earth would be to colonize it. Perhaps they destroyed their planet or their star was dying. Much like the colonists and conquistadors did in the western hemisphere, these aliens would most likely have to "shove" humanity out of the way in order to make room for themselves.

However, the idea of coming all this way to wipe us out because we pose a threat to the rest of the universe is absurd. First off, we're not even CLOSE to inter-stellar travel. Alpha Centauri is 4 light years away. Even in James Cameron's movie, Avatar, the journey was still a 6 year one-way trip. Instead of exterminating mankind, wouldn't it be far easier to patrol the outer ring of our solar system and blow away any craft trying to leave?

Also, how would any alien race even KNOW we're here? The biggest giveaways we have about our existence are the millions of radio emissions we have made and continue to make which still propagate through space. However, we've only been broadcasting for about a century, so the only planets that could have detected any of our radio waves would have to be within 100 light years of us (that's not even around the corner in galactic terms).

Now, setting aside what an alien race would think of our intelligence level as soon as they starting picking up stray transmissions of Three's Company and The Love Boat, we have to assume any aliens capable of traveling to our planet are far more advanced and most likely have been sending THEIR radio waves into space for much longer. Unless they're practicing EMCON (emission control in military speak), you'd think we would have detected THEM first, but so far SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) and other scans across the electro-magnetic spectrum have produced bupkis. I would hazard the belief that any intelligent life in the universe, or even within our own galaxy, is extremely distant from our planet, too far away to be any threat.

This "study" simply sounds like more left-wing environmental propaganda pushing its agenda rather than true science. It may have a place at ComicCon perhaps, but not NASA.