NASA says "Aliens Might Eat Us in Self Defense" Do we taste like Chicken ??

NASA Scientist: Aliens Might Eat Us in Self Defense

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If you've been looking for a good reason to cut back on your driving, here you go. Extraterrestrials might destroy humanity - maybe even eat us -- in order to protect other civilizations in the universe from human-created threats like greenhouse gases, according to scientists connected to NASA's Planetary Science Division.
In a report titled, Would Contact with Extraterrestrials Benefit or Harm Humanity? A Scenario Analysis, scientists from NASA's Planetary Science Division and Pennsylvania State University present three potential outcomes of humankind's first contact with extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) - space aliens. From best to worst, say the scientists, our "close encounter" with ETI could turn out to be beneficial, neutral or harmful to humans.
Beneficial: It could be all good! ETI might cooperate with us in solving many of the problems facing humanity. If, on the other hand, ETI is not so cooperative, we might defeat them, winning a huge moral victory and a chance to commandeer their advanced technologies.
Neutral: We might not notice ETI at all. They might intentionally hide from us or simply be too far away to directly interact with us. Still, suggests the scientists, our arguments over how to deal with ETI could create a drain on our resources.
Harmful: "There are many ways contact could harm humanity." In this chilling scenario, the NASA scientists launch into the widely held assumption that ETI, since it can travel about the galaxy -- if not the whole universe -- is "much stronger than humanity" and might intentionally harm us. "ETI could attack and kill us, enslave us, or potentially even eat us," they write.
"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," reason the scientists. "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."
Why Us? Now, why would ETI want to hurt peaceful little us? According to the NASA scientists, ETI might just be plain mean or ETI might want to protect other galactic civilizations from us. "We might be a threat to the galaxy just as we are a threat to our home planet," they wrote.
Along with being bad-to-the-bone, suggest the NASA scientists, ETI might also be "ecosystem-valuing" altruists. "It would be particularly important for us to limit our emissions of greenhouse gases," they warn, "since atmospheric composition can be observed from other planets." The mere possibility that we could end up as ET's dinner should be "reason to limit our growth and reduce our impact on global ecosystems," urge the scientists.
ETI might also crush us accidentally while just going about their daily business. "ETI could also harm us unintentionally," suggest the scientists. "ETI might give us a biological or computer disease that our defenses cannot handle. Or, ETI might mechanically crush us while attempting some unrelated maneuver."
About that Eating Us Thing: As mentioned earlier, the NASA scientists developed their "harmful" alien contact scenario around the assumption that extraterrestrials will have certainly developed supremely powerful weapons against which we will be defenseless. That assumption could be faulty. We humans have developed some pretty stunning weapons, but we cannot travel to the stars. What if, the aliens can travel to the stars, but have never developed weapons? What if, the aliens turn out to be just a bunch of fast-traveling, obnoxious wimps that are only three inches tall, look like cupcakes and taste like bacon? Then who might eat who?