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CO2 causes Alien attacks!

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  • L Lost User

    This is so laughably funny I had to post it: Rising greenhouse emissions could tip off aliens that we are a rapidly expanding threat, warns a report says Shawn Domagal-Goldman of Nasa's Planetary Science Division and affiliated scientists and colleagues at Pennsylvania State University [^] I am thinking cart-horse here. Shouldnt they prove the existence of Aliens before worrying what they might think about our activities? Not only that, dont you suppose the Iraq war, Guantanamo bay, and rioting in the UK might be of more concern to them? :)

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    Atmospheric testing of Nuclear Weapons? No threat there, then.

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    • L Lost User

      This is so laughably funny I had to post it: Rising greenhouse emissions could tip off aliens that we are a rapidly expanding threat, warns a report says Shawn Domagal-Goldman of Nasa's Planetary Science Division and affiliated scientists and colleagues at Pennsylvania State University [^] I am thinking cart-horse here. Shouldnt they prove the existence of Aliens before worrying what they might think about our activities? Not only that, dont you suppose the Iraq war, Guantanamo bay, and rioting in the UK might be of more concern to them? :)

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      We should also proove the existence of oxygen before we start breating it.

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      • L Lost User

        This is so laughably funny I had to post it: Rising greenhouse emissions could tip off aliens that we are a rapidly expanding threat, warns a report says Shawn Domagal-Goldman of Nasa's Planetary Science Division and affiliated scientists and colleagues at Pennsylvania State University [^] I am thinking cart-horse here. Shouldnt they prove the existence of Aliens before worrying what they might think about our activities? Not only that, dont you suppose the Iraq war, Guantanamo bay, and rioting in the UK might be of more concern to them? :)

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        There is a diagram from Al Gore for that.

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        • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

          Not really - the rise in CO2 emissions can (in theory) be spotted at a considerable range via spectography, rioting can't. If your telescope has a long enough base line then spotting rising levels could be done over lots of light years - we aren't that far off doing that ourselves, and that is with just the Kepler space telescope, without launching the Jame Webb (if it actually launches) in 2018.

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          Well, there are two problems with that thought. 1) You couldn't probably couldn't tell CO2 caused by rapid industrialization from a highly volcanic planet (or anything of the sort). 2) By the time the rays reached them, it would be millions of years later, so its likely either we'd already be dead or a huge galactic empire ready to destroy them. :cool:

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            Well, there are two problems with that thought. 1) You couldn't probably couldn't tell CO2 caused by rapid industrialization from a highly volcanic planet (or anything of the sort). 2) By the time the rays reached them, it would be millions of years later, so its likely either we'd already be dead or a huge galactic empire ready to destroy them. :cool:

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            Well, the milky way is only 100,000 light years wide, so it wouldn't take millions of years! :laugh: The difference between CO2 from volcanism is debatable - volcanoes here emit water, CO2 and SO2 mostly (in that order), so any increase in CO2 not accompanied by the other two would be significant. However, this may not be the case on other planets, but it is likely that sulphur compounds would indicate natural processes rather than industrial. Probably worth sending a probe anyway!

            Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."

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            • L Lost User

              This is so laughably funny I had to post it: Rising greenhouse emissions could tip off aliens that we are a rapidly expanding threat, warns a report says Shawn Domagal-Goldman of Nasa's Planetary Science Division and affiliated scientists and colleagues at Pennsylvania State University [^] I am thinking cart-horse here. Shouldnt they prove the existence of Aliens before worrying what they might think about our activities? Not only that, dont you suppose the Iraq war, Guantanamo bay, and rioting in the UK might be of more concern to them? :)

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              I'm doing my part to reduce greenhouse gases by eating as many cows as I can.

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              • L Lost User

                This is so laughably funny I had to post it: Rising greenhouse emissions could tip off aliens that we are a rapidly expanding threat, warns a report says Shawn Domagal-Goldman of Nasa's Planetary Science Division and affiliated scientists and colleagues at Pennsylvania State University [^] I am thinking cart-horse here. Shouldnt they prove the existence of Aliens before worrying what they might think about our activities? Not only that, dont you suppose the Iraq war, Guantanamo bay, and rioting in the UK might be of more concern to them? :)

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                Unless of course it's proof that we still rely on primitive energy sources and are therefore not a threat at all. Any species that could actually travel here is likely to be far beyond us in energy production.

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                  Eric_V wrote:

                  This is so laughably funny I had to post it

                  No, fat__________boy, you had to post it as you thought we wouldn't notice yet another AGW post.

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                  Who is this fat_boy character? I keep hearing alot about him but haven't seen him online?

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                  • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                    Well, the milky way is only 100,000 light years wide, so it wouldn't take millions of years! :laugh: The difference between CO2 from volcanism is debatable - volcanoes here emit water, CO2 and SO2 mostly (in that order), so any increase in CO2 not accompanied by the other two would be significant. However, this may not be the case on other planets, but it is likely that sulphur compounds would indicate natural processes rather than industrial. Probably worth sending a probe anyway!

                    Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."

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                    OriginalGriff wrote:

                    Well, the milky way is only 100,000 light years wide, so it wouldn't take millions of years! :laugh:

                    Well, that's assuming top of the line 3x10^8 speed light. You might get some light that is a little more sluggish and have it take longer. ;)

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                      OriginalGriff wrote:

                      Well, the milky way is only 100,000 light years wide, so it wouldn't take millions of years! :laugh:

                      Well, that's assuming top of the line 3x10^8 speed light. You might get some light that is a little more sluggish and have it take longer. ;)

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                      No turtles here! :laugh:

                      Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."

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