Washington Times is sane compared to leftist news propaganda outlets and secular science publications. Here is what our money is being wasted on by researchers at Penn State and NASA:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576510003917
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Acta Astronautica
Volume 68, Issues 11–12, June–July 2011, Pages 2114-2129
Would contact with extraterrestrials benefit or harm humanity? A scenario analysis
Author links open overlay panelSeth D. Baum a, Jacob D. Haqq-Misra b, Shawn D. Domagal-Goldman c
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Abstract
While humanity has not yet observed any extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI), contact with ETI remains possible.
This paper presents a broad synthesis of available information regarding the possible outcomes of contact with ETI.
We organize ETI contact scenarios into three basic categories based on whether the consequences would be beneficial, neutral, or harmful to us.
The last scenarios we consider are those in which contact with ETI is harmful to humanity (Fig. 1, right column). This is a particularly important set of scenarios because of the strong caution they impose on our SETI and METI endeavors. These scenarios have also received extensive consideration in both fictional and non-fictional realms. Here we explore one main type of scenario in which an ETI could be harmful: intentional harm. The possibility of ETI causing unintentional harm is discussed
Acknowledgments
Jason Matheny and Ilana Brito provided helpful assistance on disease spread dynamics. Two anonymous reviewers provided helpful feedback on an earlier version of this article. Any remaining errors are our own.
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Seth D. Baum
Department of Geography, Pennsylvania State University, 302 Walker Building, University Park, PA 16802, USA
Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 814 863 8755; fax: +1 814 863 7943.
sbaum@psu.edu
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Jacob D. Haqq-Misra
Department of Meteorology, Pennsylvania State University, 407 Walker Building, University Park, PA 16802, USA
misra@meteo.psu.edu
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Shawn D. Domagal-Goldman
cNASA Planetary Science Division, 300 E Street Southwest, Washington, DC 20054, USA
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Sadly, this is the kind of crap our educated elite is wasting money on and calling it science. The original article by Penn State and NASA 'researchers' suggested that aliens may come to earth and eat us if we do not start spending more money on global warming research. Get it? The secularist medicine men told their stupid admirers that if they do not give more of their personal cash to the medicine men then the medicine men will stop protecting them from Mother Nature.
Here are fair assessments of snippets from the full article the left is understandably reluctant to publicize:
NASA Study: If We Don’t Change, Aliens Will Remove Us (anomalien.com)
In a study conducted by top researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and NASA and published in the academic journal Acta Astronautics (Would Contact with Extraterrestrials Benefit or Harm Humanity? A Scenario Analysis), leading scientists have claimed that intelligent Beings from other planetary systems could very well reach Earth, in order to destroy humanity “in order to make the galaxy a better place to live” and protect other civilizations from the destructive fury of man.
It has also been stated by the researchers that the aliens may even consider the possibility of enslaving the Human Race in order to control it and ‘hopefully’ teach us all how to have care and empathy again, or worse comes to worse use as food! (the Food part sounds a little ‘scare-mongering – courtesy of NASA!).
Ok to be fair this may not exactly rank as one of the most compelling reasons to curb greenhouse gases, but there is a possibility that reducing our internal emissions might just save the Human Race from a pre-emptive alien attack, scientists have claimed.
