Saw this link on Facebook.

Before I go too far, really need to start by reading this report.  It’s a little long at 30 or so actual pages, but it’s pretty fun.

If you actually did read it, we can have some fun now.  If you didn’t, the rest won’t make much sense.

The premise:

While humanity has not yet observed any extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI), contact with ETI remains possible. Contact could occur through a broad range of scenarios that have varying consequences for humanity. However, many discussions of this question assume that contact will follow a particular scenario that derives from the hopes and fears of the author. In this paper, we analyze a broad range of contact scenarios in terms of whether contact with ETI would benefit or harm humanity. This type of broad analysis can help us prepare for actual contact with ETI even if the details of contact do not fully resemble any specific scenario.

Now, the blurb that got my attention:

“Green” aliens might object to the environmental damage humans have caused on Earth and wipe us out to save the planet. “These scenarios give us reason to limit our growth and reduce our impact on global ecosystems. It would be particularly important for us to limit our emissions of greenhouse gases, since atmospheric composition can be observed from other planets,” the authors write.

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OK, Gateway Pundit and Hot Air immediately go off on this report.  Dismissing it as “stupid”.  But, there’s a lot of content here to play with.

First of all, they address the fact we’ve never been contacted.  They attribute this to the Fermi Paradox.  Wavy lines emerge as I drift back to the day I thought about the Fermi Paradox.  In essence, if there are billions of planets and millions with life, why haven’t any come here?  Well, maybe because there’s just nothing terribly special, in the galactic sense, about Earth.  Drake’s Theory puts a very real limit on space travel as we know it.  What it does, as I’ve always felt, is it points out that in order to move in such a way that you can zip all over the universe, you got to use some pretty profound amounts of energy.  Regardless of how you do it, it will most likely be expensive.  If there are solid planets of valuable resources, that’s where ET will go.  Some tiny little planet with lots of trees, cows to gut, and H2O won’t cut it.  There’s millions of those out there.  So, they would have to come here for a different reason.

Then, they discuss electronic contact.  That really doesn’t get too terribly exciting.

Then they get into the meat.

The reason to believe that ETI would be more advanced is because humans and human technology are relatively recent phenomena in the history of Earth. We have only had radio communication for about a century, or just a few generations, which suggests that advanced technology can develop quickly compared to evolutionary timescales. Following this reasoning, it is likely that any extant ETI has been around much longer than us and would have developed far greater technological abilities than we could imagine for ourselves. Even if an ETI is younger than us, the very ability to contact us would likely imply progress beyond that which our society has obtained. We have not yet figured out how to achieve interstellar communication or travel; a society that has these capabilities is almost certainly more technologically advanced than we are……

Did ya follow that?  I’ll try to dumb it down a little.  If they are smarter than we are, that means, they are smarter than we are.  The reason they would be able to communicate with us is because, you guessed it, they are smarter than we are.  They’ve been working on radios a lot longer than we have.  Next.

They then discuss to some detail how selfish or universal ET might be.  Well, that’s fine and good, but it’s pointless in that they are assuming we would care.  Man’s kind of reactionary, distrustful, and easily intimidated.  Our first instinct in a lot of situations is to shoot first, ask questions later, and let God sort everyone out.  They may come here with all the good of the universe in mind, but if that benefit to the universe is to rid it of Earthlings, being selfish wouldn’t make a whole lot of difference for us.

They then ponder our reaction to contact.  They think we might not get along too well.  They’re probably right.  But, exactly how do they think Aleuts are going to communicate with the aliens?  It will be a limited response.

On and on it goes.  They even cite The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

They then sum it up with two suggestions.  Be careful what we tell them.  And, the blurb.

The reason the “blurb” is so stupid is because of what they cite in The Hitchhikers’s Guide to the Galaxy.  They didn’t come and chat with humans and decide the planet needed to be saved, they blew it up without telling anyone to make way for an intergalactic highway.  The scenarios are endless.

Who are these scientists?

• Seth D. Baum, Department of Geography, Pennsylvania State University
• Jacob D. Haqq-Misra, Department of Meteorology, Pennsylvania State University
• Shawn D. Domagal-Goldman, NASA Planetary Science Division

Someone who studies the physical makeup of the Earth, someone who studies weather, and someone who studies other planets.  And the only real conclusion is if we don’t take care of the planet, something else might?
OK, there’s a fight going on right now over cutting wasteful spending……..
Bottom line, there’s ALL KINDS Of first contact scenarios that have already been explored.  This scenario they come up with is simply the plot to The Day the Earth Stood Still remake.

Without going to a whole lot of trouble, and absolutely no expense whatsoever to the taxpaying public, I’ve put together some other first-contact analysis:

And coming this fall, Apollo 18. From what I can tell, a movie about astronauts who go to the Moon and find alien bugs with incredible broken technology.

Dang, I forgot all the abduction movies too.