There's no subject more fertile for debate than hypothesizing about the nature of extraterrestrial beings.
So, in a study carried out by NASA and Pennsylvania State University scientists ("Would contact with extraterrestrials benefit or harm humanity? A scenario analysis," arXiv:1104.4462v2 [physics.pop-ph]), several intelligent extraterrestrial encounter scenarios are examined. One of the scenarios is a sci-fi favorite: what if we encounter an alien race hellbent on destroying us?
ANALYSIS: Why Would Aliens Invade?
But this isn't mindless thuggery on behalf of the aliens, and they're not killing us to get at our natural resources, they have a cause. They want to exterminate us for the greater good of the Milky Way.
Yes, they consider us cockroaches. Cockroaches left in charge of increasingly-advanced and destructive technology.
Let's face it, with ecosystem destruction on a global scale and greenhouse gases being belched out into the atmosphere at record rates, to a distant alien observer we may look like a destructive civilization spiraling out of control -- and they wouldn't be far wrong.
Read More: http://news.discovery.com/space/save-the-galaxy-destroy-humanity-110818.html
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