Y2Kyoto: War Of The Worlds

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The world still has too many scientists;

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.

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55 Replies to “Y2Kyoto: War Of The Worlds”

  2. Or perhaps these Aliens, who must possess a significant level of technology to observe us and potentially destroy us, has been able to observe Earth for awhile and understand where we are in the great Glaciological cycles that has ruled the climate of the planet for the last 2 million+ years.
    http://vimeo.com/14366077
    And then theses oh so smart Aliens might decide that these scientists are just a parasitic class of humanity and need to be removed to improve the Earth’s chances of a successful future.

  3. That is so stupid and childish … it’s like saying that the cannibal Pygmies from Borneo may come and eat everyone in New York City just because they aren’t running their City properly.
    In the Galactic community we are at the cannibal Pygmy level. We don’t even have a space program anymore … so where’s the threat we pose to Alien worlds. Or are they going to save us from ourselves? And why bother anyway? What do they care? Really?
    And who is to say how the alleged aliens are running their worlds? Oh ya …. the left has a mainline to the aliens. If you every have listened to that Art Bell show Coast to Coast you can see where they get these inane ideas.

  4. “take drastic action to keep us from becoming a more serious threat”
    Like fixing an election to ensure that someone who wants to destroy the biggest economy in the world gets elected?
    They’re here!

  6. This was editorial satire, right? Do we have a new MSM category, “not watching for the ray-guns”?

  7. I noticed how they didn’t mention scientists names.
    My guess is James Hansen is completely behind this.

  11. We’re just as likely to encounter a race of aliens that’s horrified at our terrible disfigurement (on account of not having six legs), and will release an airborne genetic mutator that will correct this tragedy.

  12. “Too many scientists and not enough government grants.”
    More like too many government grants, not enough science. These people aren’t scientists.
    “Not enough scientists. Too many people calling what they do “science”.”
    Yes exactly.
    Did anyone read through the comments on the original site? There’s just something really disturbing about some of the conversation, how we’re e-coli to their perfect cultures, etc.
    “In the Galactic community we are at the cannibal Pygmy level. We don’t even have a space program anymore …”
    There is no Galactic community. We don’t know if we’re at the cannibal Pygmy level either – perhaps with sattellites, space shuttles and probes we have achieved more advancement in space than any other possible species in the Milky Way if any even exist. We just don’t know.
    What a bunch of drivel that article was.

  13. If the aliens are worried about earth’s civilization being a threat, one would think they would be more alarmed by watching our “reality TV” than greenhouse gasses.

  15. These dorks must have taken literally the old saying about “Little Green Men from Mars”
    Wonder if they have figured out the Santa Clause thingy yet ?

  16. “Isn’t this the plot of Ed Wood’s “Plan 9 from Outer Space” only funnier?”
    Yes it is, kinda…But it’s pretty much the story line of the remake of “The Day the Earth Stood Still” with Keanu Reeves from a couple years ago.
    Has society dumb down enough to believe this nonsense now? I would think a story like this would stick with dummies like the ones in the movie “Idiocracy” set in the near future.
    We are truly screwed.

  17. Plan 9 From Outer Space was the first thing that came to my mind as well.
    There was another science fiction film (bad) recently that had aliens coming to earth to burn carbon in order to cause global warming. That was a little more subtle an effort to get the man-caused global warming to be an accepted reality.

  18. “If the aliens are worried about earth’s civilization being a threat, one would think they would be more alarmed by watching our “reality TV” than greenhouse gasses”
    I’m with John, I’ll be packing my stuff and heading for the hills…

  20. Oh dear – caught by the profanity filter.
    Perhaps I should have said “dickheads” instead of “f**kwits”.

  21. More than a few Penn State profs are just busting their buttons over their genius alumni today.

  22. Drug abuse is apparently becoming a problem amongst research scientists. Let’s keep the locoweed out of the laboratories.

  23. I remember when Miami Vice had their alien episode.
    Basically, the ‘alien episode’ comes just after the ‘jumping the shark episode’.
    It’s a sign that popularity has waned, and the producers cannot figure out why. At that point the producers get more and more outrageous to draw the last scant vestiges of attention before they are cancelled.

  25. “Green” aliens will attack Earth to save Gaia? Hah! Amateurs with death rays: I survived watching Keanu Reeves in The Day the Earth Stood Still. Nothing space aliens could do will overcome the sheer terror of being forced to watch that film. Do your worst aliens, do your worst!

  27. So long as we don’t kill-off the Humped Back Whales we’ll be okay.
    If that doesn’t work, we’ve still got Keanu Reeves.

  28. So far, the only scientifically proven “extraterrestrials” are humans. We are are the only beings in the universe that have been proven to fly to other planets, land on other celestial bodies, and send spaceships into outer space. Humans from planet Earth are in fact the only “aliens” that we know of! (I will give $10,000 to anyone who can scientifically refute that statement).
    Title of my upcoming book:
    “My Search For Evidence Of Intelligent Life On Earth”
    😉

  29. I guess it’s fair to say that if aliens DO come to earth stop us from killing Mother Gaia with CO2, that they’ll be traveling in a hybrid right?
    Else the alien eco-tards are just as hypocritical as the ones here.

  31. 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.
    Right, right, and so we should eschew technology and live in sod huts burning wood and dung for fuel.
    Then when the aliens come we can throw rocks at them.

  32. Jon @3:09 – thanks for the heads up on Shawn’s mea culpa – hard lesson learned for an overworked, postdoc working with NASA. I see a comment on his blog even blaming AGW skeptics for handing it to The Guardian.

  34. How arrogant of these Liberal scientists to think that if there were space aliens they’d have liberal values.
    Maybe the aliens would come to annhialate us because they had a period in their history when they had to overcome socialism and they want top stamp it out on earth before it spreads.
    Or maybe they’re just incensed over transmissions of Lady Gaga floating around in space.
    I mean, come on!
    If the aliens had the liberal values of the scientists themselves, it’s a safe bet they wouldn’t even have developed space travel in the first place.
    Exhibit A:
    Obama shuts down NASA’s space program to save money but wants to blow money the U.S. doesn’t have on alternative energy projects.

  35. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot….
    Okay…IF these aliens were within 20 light-years….the emissions they would be analyzing
    would be 20 years old and despite the assumption they had developed a near light speed drive…it qouls probably involve 30 years in flight considering the necessity of accelerating and decelerating….and it would need the energy of several stars/suns to do that.
    This also assumes they would even care……
    Remember the “Drake Equation” is just speculation based upon several dubious assumptions.
    I am not a sceptic about ET but cannot ignore the incredubly vast distances involved and the practical difficulties of developing, producing, storing and deploying energy on such a vast scale.
    I concede their possible existance but doubt the prospect of any contact beyond signals of some nature…..
    Even H G Wells (late 18th century)speculated that our microbes would probably lethal to aliens….just as an alien environment would be lethal to us.
    Live long and prosper……

  36. Which ET End of the World do you prefer? “Bordered in Black” or “Killing Star”?

  37. Right, right, and so we should eschew technology and live in sod huts burning wood and dung for fuel.
    Then when the aliens come we can throw rocks at them.
    LOFL
    No, No, maybe the flung dung would kill them..
    If they are Green its probably from not bathing for generations, saving all that soap and water on the home planet..
    Kill em with water-
    ‘I’m melting’,
    ‘I’m melting’..

  38. Pre-emptive alien attack?
    I’ll be the first to welcome our new alien overlords if they come to earth and kill all the liberals.

  39. I’m glad you caught this one Kate, it’hilarious. The author, a NASA employee, though not writing this rubbish on NASA’s dime, is being publicly humiliated, and justly so. I can’t see this guy getting another job.

  40. How is this ‘science’?
    All this paper does is extrapolate humans finding civilizations over the past several hundred years AND it would seem using science fiction to fill in the rest. Nothing more than a research paper; and that’s giving more credit than it deserves. Idiots.
    I kept waiting for the punch line………still waiting…….there HAS to be a punch line…..

  41. I’m glad you caught this one Kate, it’hilarious. The author, a NASA employee, though not writing this rubbish on NASA’s dime, is being publicly humiliated, and justly so. I can’t see this guy getting another job.

  43. So NASA ran another one up the flagpole. Get an ’employee’ to write the nonsense and if everyone salutes it then NASA can take the credit for it. If everyone laughs at it then NASA can ‘truthfully’ say, “Oh it was just the scribblings of an employee with a vivid imagination”.

  44. These scientists are visiting Earth, not living here.
    The Guardian, NASA, and Penn State.
    That says it all!

  45. The same “scientists” also think that K-PAX was a documentary.
    Or,
    maybe the same “scientists” listen to Coast to Coast, they like to anilyze these sort of things.
    Or,
    maybe the same “scientists” talked to the Roswell guy.
    When you think about it, the possibilites are limitless.
    It is good to know though that the aliens are interested in what is going on here rather than in the centre of the moon.

  47. Its the plots of some of Hollywood’s worst movies run through a grinder then served up as “science”. Its not just science fiction, its -bad- science fiction from the 1950’s. “The Day The Earth Stood Still” springs to mind, both the old version and the new wanky Keanu Reeves barf-like version. Or any Twilight Zone episode with aliens in it.
    I posted on this thing earlier today as well. What’s most significant about it is the approving tone of the Guardian’s piece on it. Seems the Guardian author doesn’t read science fiction, or possibly doesn’t read at all. Or is just a mediawhore/propagandist paid by the word.

  49. Is this forthcoming alien invasion settled science?
    This is the most ridiculous example of the so-called “precautionary principle” to date.

  50. sasquatch
    in your analysis of the “drive” from there to here, you forgot one crucial “factor” that would greatly alter the out come:-))))

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