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#230098 - 08/19/11 10:51 PM Re: NASA: aliens might destroy us [Re: Bingley]
Bingley Offline
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As I read more about this from various news sources, I am gradually coming to realize that this hubbub is really a case of bad news reporting. It seems that some news articles misrepresent the funding and the institutional provenance of the paper, and I am also getting the sense that they also misrepresent the content of the paper. Some journalists have magnified one small aspect of the paper (the hypothetical scenario involving aliens and climate change) in order to exploit the controversy. In other words, twist the truth to sell the story and make a big splash.

I'm sorry I brought such junk news to your attention. I just thought it might be helpful and fun to see that scientists are also thinking about (and therefore prepare for) end-of-the-world scenarios.

Da Bing

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#230107 - 08/20/11 12:49 AM Re: NASA: aliens might destroy us [Re: Bingley]
Hikin_Jim Offline
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Registered: 10/12/07
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Loc: Southern California
Stop prepping for earthquakes, fires, hurricanes, and tornadoes! The sky is falling! Uh, I mean, the aliens are coming!

As if aliens would care what we did with our isolated planet.

HJ
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#230108 - 08/20/11 12:58 AM Re: NASA: aliens might destroy us [Re: Hikin_Jim]
Am_Fear_Liath_Mor Offline
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Registered: 08/03/07
Posts: 3078
Quote:

Stop prepping for earthquakes, fires, hurricanes, and tornadoes! The sky is falling! Uh, I mean, the aliens are coming!


What about another Carrington Event. The powers that be, know about the potential for it and they know how to harden the Electrical Grid to counter it. With Black starts and nuclear reactors popping all over the US, they may conclude to tell the public, 'it was the Space Aliens what did it. We need to re-arm now!!!' wink

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#230111 - 08/20/11 01:19 AM Re: NASA: aliens might destroy us [Re: Bingley]
Susan Offline
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Registered: 01/21/04
Posts: 5163
Loc: W. WA
If there are space aliens out there, they're probably sitting around filing their talons or farting cyanide gas or something.

They don't have to do anything to us, we're well on our way to killing ourselves off. Then, all they have to do is vaporize what's left of the dead bodies (the count will depend on how fast we die off), and move in.

Of course, the alternative is if the zombies kill us off first, then the aliens will have to deal with them. But it shouldn't be too much trouble, I've heard they don't move very fast.

Sue

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#230115 - 08/20/11 01:58 AM Re: NASA: aliens might destroy us [Re: Bingley]
Hikin_Jim Offline
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Everyone grab *all* your camp stoves! We'll light them simultaneously as the alien invasion fleet enters the solar system. The aliens will see the massive heat signature and think we've finally gone and nuked ourselves into oblivion. No point in invading a radioactive cinder. Invasion averted! Saved by ... wait for it... hydrocarbons! Huzzah!

HJ
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#230116 - 08/20/11 01:59 AM Re: NASA: aliens might destroy us [Re: Bingley]
sotto Offline
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Registered: 06/04/03
Posts: 450
I believe the chance of us being contacted intentionally by any intelligent extraterrestrial lifeform is zilch, zippo, nada, way less than none. In comparison to the rest of the cosmos, we en masse are probably way tinier than even the tiniest spec of insignificant sub-atomic particle currently known to nuclear physics. IMHO, of course. ;-)

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#230126 - 08/20/11 03:31 AM Re: NASA: aliens might destroy us [Re: Bingley]
CANOEDOGS Offline
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Registered: 02/03/07
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Loc: MINNESOTA
i like the story where the first person the aliens meet is a kid out hunting rabbits,when the fearsome guys from Xg 1000 open fire their weapon does nothing more than burn a hole in his polyfluff hoodie,he shoots back with his 22 and the round goes thru not only the aliens armor but thru their "tank" and the space ship.in the end we become Masters Of The Universe!!

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#230138 - 08/20/11 02:43 PM Re: NASA: aliens might destroy us [Re: Hikin_Jim]
chaosmagnet Offline
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Registered: 12/03/09
Posts: 3819
Loc: USA
Originally Posted By: Hikin_Jim
Everyone grab *all* your camp stoves! We'll light them simultaneously as the alien invasion fleet enters the solar system. The aliens will see the massive heat signature and think we've finally gone and nuked ourselves into oblivion. No point in invading a radioactive cinder. Invasion averted! Saved by ... wait for it... hydrocarbons! Huzzah!


That would work if everyone had as many camp stoves as you :-).

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#230150 - 08/20/11 05:52 PM Re: NASA: aliens might destroy us [Re: Hikin_Jim]
Arney Offline
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Registered: 09/15/05
Posts: 2485
Loc: California
Originally Posted By: Hikin_Jim
Everyone grab *all* your camp stoves! We'll light them simultaneously as the alien invasion fleet enters the solar system... Huzzah!

I think this option then leads us to catch the atmosphere on fire, burning everything on the surface to a crisp and thus doing to ourselves what we were trying to avoid from the alien invasion. Then, a million years later, larger, intelligent descendants of ants take over the earth. Charlton Heston would be a logical lead to do the movie version, or his computer animated avatar. But who would play the head of the ant civillization? Hmmm, perhaps Hugo Weaving, but should the ants have an Australian, British, or American accent? Decisions, decisions...

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#230191 - 08/21/11 09:15 PM Re: NASA: aliens might destroy us [Re: Bingley]
KG2V Offline

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Registered: 08/19/03
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I find it funny, that since the 1950s, in bith SF and Govt studies, Aliens always care about whatever is the current pet worry of Mainstream Govt scientists

The worry never is something 'odd' like say "green paint causes alien cancer" or something totally non fathomable to us - Heck. maybe the aliens will be highly religious and attack us because we're not going to church
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