Guest “Don’t these fools watch science fiction movies?’ by David Middleton
New message to aliens will reflect on Earth in danger of climate crisis
By Keith Cooper published 2 days agoA new attempt to reach out to intelligent life in the universe will broadcast information and music about our environment.
A radio signal designed to bring Earth‘s climate crisis to the attention of alien life will be beamed to the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system in October.
The message has been devised by METI International, a group of scientists, sociologists, historians, anthropologists and artists who have come together with a common belief that humanity would benefit from beaming messages to the stars rather than just waiting to receive a message from aliens. (METI stands for Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence, as opposed to SETI, the more passive Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.) The Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station in Cornwall, U.K., will broadcast the climate-change message on Oct. 4 to coincide with the beginning of World Space Week, which this year has the theme of “Space and Sustainability.”
“Any aliens receiving our message won’t be surprised to hear about our climate crisis,” Douglas Vakoch, President of METI International, told Space.com. “They’ve had decades to observe our plight from afar.”
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Space.com
When I read this, the first thing I thought of was Gort…
I would tell them that when Gort shows up, they need to say “Klaatu barada nikto!”… However, that only worked in the 1951 original… Back when the aliens just wanted to stop us from exporting war into space. This is more like the 2008 remake, in which Gort was an environmental terrorist.
Don’t worry…
Climate models have already wiped out all life in the Trappist-1 system. Well, almost all life…
The announcement of the Trappist-1 system in February, with seven rocky planets orbiting an ultracool dwarf star, sent ripples of excitement through astrobiologists everywhere.
At least three of the planets looked like they were within the star’s “habitable zone” – the region in which water will remain liquid. On that level, at least, the trio seemed like very good candidates for hosting life.
Now, however, 3D climate modelling is dampening expectations, suggesting that at most only one of Trappist-1’s satellites could support life.
The modelling has been completed by Eric Wolf from the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado, Boulder. In doing so, he made the assumption that the seven planets are – or had once been – ocean-covered, with atmospheres comprising nitrogen, carbon-dioxide and water vapour. Orbital and geophysical properties were derived or deduced from collected data.
When Wolf ran the numbers, the results were rather depressing.
“Model results indicate that the inner three planets presently reside interior to the inner edge of the traditional liquid water habitable zone,” he writes in a paper lodged on pre-print site arxiv.
“Thus if water ever existed on the inner planets, they would have undergone a runaway greenhouse and lost their water to space, leaving them dry today.”
The outer three planets, he adds, “fall beyond the maximum CO2 greenhouse outer edge of the habitable zone” and will have entered a lifeless snowball state.
Thus, only the middle planet remains a candidate for hosting life. It could maintain “at least some habitable surface”, Wolf notes, depending on the atmospheric nitrogen levels. If the planet is, in fact, covered in ocean, then “near present day Earth surface temperatures can be maintained”.
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Cosmos
No… Wait… Worry!
I was feeling better, until I read this bit again:
“Thus if water ever existed on the inner planets, they would have undergone a runaway greenhouse and lost their water to space, leaving them dry today.”
The outer three planets, he adds, “fall beyond the maximum CO2 greenhouse outer edge of the habitable zone” and will have entered a lifeless snowball state
Cosmos
We’re a Goldilocks planet to them! Independence Day or Battle: Los Angeles? Either way, we’re screwed!
This just gets funnier and funnier!
If you read on, you’ll find this passage in the subject article:
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The message’s authors hope that this age gap could offer hope for humans facing the climate crisis. If an alien species has managed to survive perhaps millions or even billions of years, then experts assume that they will have long ago solved any climate issues they may have faced and would now exist in a stable society. Hearing from such aliens might give us confidence that we can solve our own climate problems. Furthermore, Vakoch said he thinks that they may be intrigued to hear from a younger species — us — who are experiencing a stage in their development that the aliens’ distant ancestors may also have experienced.
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Space.com
They’re literally reaching out to the Trappistsanians for emotional support because no one here will fix the “climate crisis” for them… While, not realizing that the same climate modelers who convinced them there’s a climate crisis have already wiped out the Trappistsanians with climate models…
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As the great Python philosopher Eric Idle once sang “Pray that there’s intelligent life somewhere out in space, cos there’s bugger all down here on Earth”
That’s an excellent strategy to protect us from alien invasion. It will undoubtedly hammer home the point that there’s no intelligent life here.
“Any aliens receiving our message won’t be surprised”
So why bother?
Many eons ago, the first micro flora invented photosynthesis with which they converted the 20% CO2 content of the Earth’s atmosphere to oxygen and took over the world. The meddling “modelling” by these pseudoscientists has a severe credibility problem. If a 20% CO2 content couldn’t turn our world into an irreversibly hot, dry desert then, how can a “scary” 0.08% content do that now?
Indeed, but I thought it was 80% or has that figure also been ‘adjusted’?
I say this all the time…and will keep saying it until people listen.
This sounds like one of Terry Pratchett’s stories. If aliens do eventually turn up they might ask indignantly ‘who sent this stupid message’? ‘Come on. No one is going anywhere until whoever it is owns up’. Of course the last time they were here was to help with the pyramids so they may speak to us in Ancient Egyptian, in which case there’s plenty of scope for some climate language expert to ‘translate’ for the aliens so what they say is ‘who sent this fantastic message on Climate Change?’ ‘Come on, let’s get going and fix the Climate Crisis, making sure we meet intergalactic inclusion, diversity and equity targets.’
JUST WORKED OUT THE CON.
They use a cheap bit of kit to “send a message” supposedly to “aliens” … but that is not the message they are sending! The message they are sending is … “if we’re stupid enough to send out messages, then surely aliens are as stupid as us … and here comes the con … so we must have funding to watch the sky for said messages”
Cue, enormous “research facilities” stuffed full of extremely well paid woke people, where all they do is sit around all day pushing the woke globalist agenda. … you’ve got the CIA to do that!
I am really at a loss and completely dumbfounded by these linked articles. I actually think it caused me to lose IQ due to my brain doing somersaults in my skull. There used to a saying, “That which does not kill you makes you stronger.”, when just maybe putting kids in helmets, car seats, etc was/is really a bad practice. We have prevented evolution from doing its job of natural selection.
I disagree. Helmets and car seats allow one to absorb the lessons the universe has to teach, rather than dying from them. They protect from the randomness of the universe, although I confess that growing up there was nary a bike helmet in sight. That might suggest that we were more cautious, but anyone raising children will know that’s not the case.
reminds me of top astronomers 100 years ago writing seriously about contemporary martian canal building . the more things change the more they stay the same
I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords.
LOL – they won’t even need the cookbook – raw will do just fine!
Oh, and – “At least you don’t see them f—–g each other over for a percentage.”
” The message’s authors hope that this age gap could offer hope for humans facing the climate crisis. ”
Have they consulted with Al Pacino?
“The message’s authors hope that this age gap could offer hope for humans facing the climate crisis. If an alien species has managed to survive perhaps millions or even billions of years, then experts assume that they will have long ago solved any climate issues they may have faced and would now exist in a stable society.”
I want to know how you get to be an “expert” in this. It sounds fun and profitable.
“sent ripples of excitement through astrobiologists everywhere.”
Astrobiologists… What exactly do astrobiologists study?
Space bugs – they’ve seen all of the ‘Aliens’ and ‘Starship Troopers’ films!
Flash Chemtrail
Lucid certified expert dreamers, who can scientifically find or figure out out what color the pink unicorns will have on other Gaia planets out there in the astro realm..
Kinda of the most lucid ones out there among the astro experts… oh well after the scientific group of astromessengers though.
cheers
I hear that The Sound of Music is big in the Trappist system.
After 100 years of monitoring our radio waves, the new assessment would be “Danger – quarantine zone. Don’t go near earth, Woke brain virus spreading”.
“Danger – quarantine zone…”
I thought the earth was listed as Mostly Harmless.
A look at the https://www.goonhilly.org/ website as well as a general Web search have failed to reveal the transmission power capability of their main antenna.
Hopefully, it is not more that 1 kW.
Why in the world would anyone want to broadcast to the Trappist-1 planetary system (or, for that matter, anywhere else in the universe) the outright, non-scientific, stupidity asserted by a relatively few humans regarding the unsubstantiated “climate crisis”?
In the 1e^-9 chance such a message is received and decoded by a alien species having technology much more advanced than humans, such would be an open invitation to intelligent life to immediate destroy the universal threat posed by such thinking.
Fortunately for all humans current living on Earth, it will take 39.5 years for any such radio “message” to reach the Trappist-1 system . . . and at least another 40 years or so to see any response, if there is to be one. If aliens do arrive, perhaps by then we can communicate words to the effect of “Ooops . . . just kidding!”
A transmission at a power level of 1 kW or less will hopefully be below the level of detectability at the distance of Trappist-1.
They will be there and we will be here and the return message will be “STFU, idiots”.
Geez, the sheer numbers suggest that it is likely that somewhere in the universe super-effective primordial environments resulted in the superadded evolution of semi-demiurges requiring no tech development to perceive all things human. They may have even created us. Tune in next time for another episode of Dr Sprew.
I am not sure if Delirium Tremens is a Trappist Ale or not, doesn’t matter, enough of the stuff will get you there. LOL
The remake of Carl Sagan is worse than the original.
Neil deGrasse Tyson wrecks everything he touches.
Where did the energy to beam this electromagnetic information away from the earth come from and why weren’t those photons intercepted by greenhouse gas?
If aliens are anything like Russians then they’re definitely coming.
The west’s weakening of its energy security due to the climate religion with the corrosive effect of renewable generation, played a significant role in Russia’s reasoning to attack Ukraine, knowing particularly Germany and central Europe’s dependence on Russian gas that were made inescapable by the renewable intermittent capacity.
Windmills are a universal communication symbol saying “invade! invade!”
It’s great these folks want to provide a public service to aliens instead of wasting their time doing real science. I think it may not be enough however to just send a message. This is the type of news best delivered in person. We need to twist the arm of someone rich and powerful – say Elon Musk – and see if they won’t build us a mighty ship so all these well-meaning do gooders can take their message galactic. I propose we call the ship Ark Fleet Ship B. These are exactly the type of people who can make the best use of such a ship. I volunteer to write the landing program for when they reach the nearest receptive civilization. I have no programming knowledge nor any understanding of cosmic navigation or space engineering but that won’t stop me from making the landing a true smash hit.
we the thinking need to send our own message out to space. include a graphic of a climate protester holding a sign with the caption that reads…eat me.
“Any aliens receiving our message won’t be surprised to hear about our climate crisis,” Douglas Vakoch, President of METI International, told Space.com. “They’ve had decades to observe our plight from afar.”
We’ve also been able to observe Earth from space for decades. No signs of a “plight” so far.
If the cast of Galaxy Quest suddenly disappears, I blame METI.
Hmm … maybe the signal is more along the lines of the one sent in “They Live!”?