{"id":18099,"date":"2011-08-29T18:34:24","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T22:34:24","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2021-05-18T16:59:40","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T20:59:40","slug":"scientists_aliens_may_destroy_humanity_to_protect_themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2011\/08\/29\/scientists_aliens_may_destroy_humanity_to_protect_themselves\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists: Aliens May Destroy Humanity to Protect Themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: There was a story&#8230; What\u2019s the date of this thing? This happened, I think, either the day I left for vacation &#8212; that Friday, the 19th &#8212; or shortly thereafter.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s in the UK Guardian, a serious story: &#8220;Aliens May Destroy Humanity to Protect Other Civilizations, Say Scientists &#8212; It may not rank as the most compelling reason to curb greenhouse gases, but reducing our emissions might just save humanity from a pre-emptive alien attack, scientists claim.&#8221; Wait. You had&#8230; Who was it? Oh, it was that idiot, <img id=\"eZObject_53994\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/aliens-1.jpg\" align=\"right\"><br \/>\nKrugman. He was advocating for a space alien attack in the New York Times as a way to get the economy to rebound. You had a serious story here in the UK Guardian. &#8220;Watching from afar, extraterrestrial beings might view changes in Earth\u2019s atmosphere as symptomatic of a civilization growing out of control &#8212; and take drastic action to keep us from becoming a more serious threat, the researchers explain.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This highly speculative scenario is one of several described by a NASA-affiliated scientist and colleagues at Pennsylvania State University that,&#8221; I\u2019m reading this verbatim, &#8220;while considered unlikely, they say could play out were humans and alien life to make contact at some point in the future. Shawn Domagal-Goldman of NASA\u2019s Planetary Science Division and his colleagues compiled a list of plausible outcomes that could unfold in the aftermath of a close encounter, to help humanity &#8216;prepare for actual contact.\u2019 In their report, Would Contact with Extraterrestrials Benefit or Harm Humanity? &#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Basically you have here a crackpot leftist scientist with influence in NASA coming in the form of an actual NASA employee producing actual NASA documents warning that if we don\u2019t adopt lunatic global warming policies of Algore\u2019s, space aliens will invade us to wipe us out, to prevent us from destroying our climate! Here\u2019s a quote from the story. Folks, this is in the UK Guardian. This story is presented with all the sincerity of any news story that you might find on the front page of any newspaper any day of the week. Here\u2019s the pull-quote: &#8220;&#8216;Green\u2019 aliens might object to the environmental damage humans have caused on Earth and wipe us out to save the planet. &#8216;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,\u2019 the authors write.&#8221; Honest to God, NASA scientists say we\u2019re being observed by space aliens, and if we don\u2019t dial it back on the greenhouse gases, they\u2019re gonna invade us and wipe us out as a civilization to save this planet!<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re being observed.<\/p>\n<p>And we\u2019re getting stories today from The Politico asking, &#8220;Is Rick Perry Dumb?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: You know, folks, every science fiction movie in the fifties, the sixties, was based on space aliens coming to earth to prevent us from developing the nuclear bomb. The nuclear bomb, we\u2019re gonna wipe ourselves out, the space aliens always smarter than we were, would show up, and that was the plot. I remember Michael Rennie was in The Day the Earth Stood Still, that stupid robot, Gort, whatever it was. It was all about we\u2019re developing a nuclear bomb. Now the aliens are gonna get us to stop doing global warming, and this gets passed off as straight news.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Jared in Boulder, Colorado. You\u2019re next. Welcome to the program, sir. Can you save us, or is this show gonna have to revert back to being totally me?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: No, I can talk. Mega dittos, Rush.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I have a couple of comments, first about the UK Guardian article that you mentioned last hour about the alien attack, and second about Hurricane Irene, if there\u2019s time.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Yes?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I\u2019m working on my Ph,D. in meteorology at Penn State University, and I know two of the authors personally of the scientific study that was mentioned in the UK Guardian article.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: About the space aliens wiping us out for global warming?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Correct.<img id=\"eZObject_53995\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/aliens-2.jpg\" align=\"right\"><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Correct. And UK Guardian got it wrong. The Guardian initially reported that it was a NASA report, and I think that was the version of the story that you mentioned earlier &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: That\u2019s right.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: &#8212; and it\u2019s not. It was a NASA-affiliated scientist and two Penn State-affiliated scientists, but it was done completely on their own free time. It was not funded by taxpayer funds whatsoever.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Okay.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: So&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, that\u2019s not a concern of mine. I don\u2019t care who paid for it.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Right. Right. I mean, granted, they still are on the left wing of the political spectrum.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Yeah, and they &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Granted, they\u2019re personal friends, but&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: They\u2019ve worked for NASA, right?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yeah. One of them worked for NASA.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Okay, so NASA has hired people who put a report together saying that there are space aliens monitoring us and our carbon emissions and if we go too far they\u2019re gonna come down here and wipe us out to save the planet?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: What the article said was&#8230; I mean, granted it\u2019s not a scientific article because anything talking about war with extraterrestrials is &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: You\u2019re not gonna try to defend these guys, are you?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: No, no. I think the study is kind of ridiculous myself.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, good. Okay. I appreciate that.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Now, that thought-provoking scenario &#8212; space aliens monitoring our carbon emissions &#8212; does appear in a joint study by Penn State and the NASA Planetary Science Division entitled, &#8220;Would Contact With Extraterrestrials Benefit or Harm Humanity? A Scenario Analysis.&#8221; It\u2019s in the UK Guardian, and they are identified as people with the NASA Planetary Science Division. You can\u2019t make this up. Somewhere Paul Krugman\u2019s gonna be shouting, &#8220;Bring it on! Bring it on!&#8221; because he was all for a space alien attack two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Aurora, Colorado, Lee, great to have you on the EIB Network. Hi.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Hi, Rush. I just wanted to make a comment. I\u2019m very sorry for the people on the East Coast who got hit by that, quote, unquote, hurricane. But you know, there\u2019s a great<img id=\"eZObject_53996\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/aliens-3.jpg\" align=\"right\"><br \/>\nsegment of our population that are still suffering from when they released the levees in the Missouri and Mississippi River. I understand that there are parts of Iowa and Nebraska still underwater. Now, Rush, this is our farmland, and these people have not been able to farm all summer.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Their highways are still dismayed &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Exactly right.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: &#8212; undriveable. Where\u2019s the help for them?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Exactly right.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: As well as the people in Texas and the four corners area that lost so much to the fires?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Exactly.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I guess we don\u2019t vote for Obama so we don\u2019t get any consideration and all the aid, right?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: You\u2019re more right than you know, and, by the way, get this. FEMA has taken, I kid you not, FEMA has taken money from little Joplin, Missouri, to use for selected victims of Hurricane Irene.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Oh, I believe it, Rush, I totally believe it. These people have no concept, if it means buying votes, well, that\u2019s what we\u2019ll do with the money, regardless whether the intent is to help people, it\u2019s buy those votes.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: That\u2019s what they view the purpose of the office as, the power to spend money, to keep themselves in power. That\u2019s precisely what\u2019s going on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: There was a story&#8230; What\u2019s the date of this thing? This happened, I think, either the day I left for vacation &#8212; that Friday, the 19th &#8212; or shortly thereafter. 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