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Climate change killed the aliens, and it might kill us too, new simulation suggests
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| Jun.07.2018
| Brandon Specktor
Posted on 07/16/2018 10:35:05 AM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
Did climate change already kill all the aliens we've been searching for?
According to astrophysicist Adam Frank, it's certainly a possibility and whether humans are doomed to the same fate may already be out of our hands.
Frank, a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Rochester in New York, is the lead author of a new paper published May 1 in the journal Astrobiology that aims to take what Frank calls a "10,000-light-year" view of anthropogenic (human-caused) climate change. Using mathematical models based on the disappearance of a real-life lost civilization here on Earth (the former inhabitants of Easter Island), Frank and his colleagues simulated how various alien civilizations might rise and fall if they were to increasingly convert their planet's limited natural resources into energy.
"The laws of physics demand that any young population, building an energy-intensive civilization like ours, is going to have feedback on its planet," Frank said in a statement. "Seeing climate change in this cosmic context may give us better insight into what's happening to us now and how to deal with it."
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: adamfrank; aliens; catastrophism; climatechange; et; extraterrestrials; fakenews; globalwarminghoax; idiocy; moronism; sunkenciv; ufo; ufos
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
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posted on
07/16/2018 11:04:48 AM PDT
by
JimRed
( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
To: Red Badger
Reminds me of the old joke about the alien Movie "Signs", specifically the scene where the alien can't get through a door, "They figured out how to travel 10,000 light years, but they can't figure out how a doorknob works?!?"
I have a feeling if there really were aliens here they would have the capacity to adjust to environmental changes far better than us...
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posted on
07/16/2018 11:05:50 AM PDT
by
apillar
To: Right_Wing_Madman
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posted on
07/16/2018 11:09:12 AM PDT
by
Moonman62
(Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
To: Right_Wing_Madman
More likely they were socialists, engaged in genocidal wars, created massive famines through failed economic policies, were enlightened and became homosexuals and then went extinct when their birthrate collapsed.
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posted on
07/16/2018 11:09:24 AM PDT
by
MrBambaLaMamba
(I speak hyperbolically)
To: Right_Wing_Madman
These people are mental. Seriously.
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posted on
07/16/2018 11:13:19 AM PDT
by
madison10
(Pray for Brett Kavanaugh and President Trump)
To: Right_Wing_Madman
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posted on
07/16/2018 11:13:54 AM PDT
by
beethovenfan
(I always try to maximize my carbon footprint.)
To: PROCON; SaveFerris; Gamecock
Should have gotten the Kaiser. Makes the Commando 8 look like a pop gun.
To: Larry Lucido
Ah, German engineering.
Like flaming globes! It is just as you prophesied!
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posted on
07/16/2018 11:19:05 AM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: Larry Lucido
Best on the internet today! Bravo!!
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posted on
07/16/2018 11:21:35 AM PDT
by
Afterguard
(Deplorable me!)
To: Right_Wing_Madman
To: Right_Wing_Madman
Did climate change already kill all the aliens ...
Well, maybe video killed the radio star AND all the aliens.
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posted on
07/16/2018 11:32:56 AM PDT
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: Right_Wing_Madman
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posted on
07/16/2018 11:49:59 AM PDT
by
faithhopecharity
( "Politicans aren't born, they're excreted." -Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
To: Larry Lucido
Or smart enough to leave.
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posted on
07/16/2018 11:52:00 AM PDT
by
BBell
(Antifa are like house cats. One squirt from a squirt bottle and they scatter.)
To: Right_Wing_Madman
From Robert Repicky’s Latin textbook (have no idea who he was) purchased at the TG&Y in Abilene, Texas, c. 1970:
“Latin’s a dead language, as dead as it can be.
It killed off all the Romans, and now it’s killing me.”
My guess is he didn’t get an A for originality.
Updated:
“Changing climate’s a dead issue, as dead as it can be.
It killed off all the aliens, and now it’s killing me.”
To: Right_Wing_Madman
Climate change killed the radio star.
Did I get that right?
5.56mm
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posted on
07/16/2018 12:04:15 PM PDT
by
M Kehoe
To: Right_Wing_Madman
So, a fictional issue among fictional beings in a fictional place caused a purely fictional die-out? What video game was the good Professor playing?
To: Right_Wing_Madman
Easter Island was not a civilization to begin with.
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posted on
07/16/2018 12:09:45 PM PDT
by
arrogantsob
(See "Chaos and Mayhem" at Amazon.com)
To: Right_Wing_Madman
So no aliens evolved on cold planets. Got it. Set beebers to stun.
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posted on
07/16/2018 12:13:41 PM PDT
by
justa-hairyape
(The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
To: Right_Wing_Madman
Killed off the unicorns too... and the dragons...
Time to postulate beyond all necessity...
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posted on
07/16/2018 12:18:04 PM PDT
by
GOPJ
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-s1_nfs7f4 STOP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-IsingvI_I)
To: PROCON; Larry Lucido
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posted on
07/16/2018 12:19:10 PM PDT
by
BBell
(Antifa are like house cats. One squirt from a squirt bottle and they scatter.)
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