{"id":2510,"date":"2020-12-09T03:40:30","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T16:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=2510"},"modified":"2020-12-09T03:40:30","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T16:40:30","slug":"scientists-will-say-anything-aliens-may-destroy-humanity-to-protect-other-civilisations-say-scientists-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=2510","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Will Say Anything. Aliens may destroy humanity to protect other civilisations, say scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2011\/aug\/18\/aliens-destroy-humanity-protect-civilisations\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2011\/aug\/18\/aliens-destroy-humanity-protect-civilisations<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Watching from afar, extraterrestrial beings might view changes in Earth\u2019s atmosphere as symptomatic of a civilisation growing out of control \u2013 and take drastic action to keep us from becoming a more serious threat, the researchers explain.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"u-underline\" title=\"Shawn Domagal-Goldman\" href=\"http:\/\/astrobiology.nasa.gov\/directory\/profile\/1107\/shawn\/domagal-goldman\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Shawn Domagal-Goldman<\/a> of Nasa\u2019s Planetary Science Division and his colleagues compiled a list of plausible outcomes that could unfold in the aftermath of a close encounter, to help humanity \u201cprepare for actual contact\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Read the article for more nonsense if you need to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2011\/aug\/18\/aliens-destroy-humanity-protect-civilisations It may not rank as the most compelling reason to curb greenhouse gases, but reducing our emissions might just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[799,800,802,804,801,803,403],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2511,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510\/revisions\/2511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}