{"id":21840,"date":"2011-08-19T07:40:45","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T12:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=21840"},"modified":"2011-08-19T09:04:23","modified_gmt":"2011-08-19T14:04:23","slug":"your-science-dollar-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=21840","title":{"rendered":"Your &#8220;Science&#8221; Dollar At Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA &#8220;scientists&#8221; have skipped past holding &#8220;Nuremberg Trials&#8221; for &#8220;denialists&#8221;, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/science\/2011\/aug\/18\/aliens-destroy-humanity-protect-civilisations\">have gone directly to invoking Krugman&#8217;s alien attack<\/a>:.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Watching from afar, extraterrestrial beings might view changes in Earth&#8217;s atmosphere as symptomatic of a civilisation growing out of control \u2013 and take drastic action to keep us from becoming a more serious threat, the researchers explain.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No, you read that right. NASA. \u00a0Not Art Bell.<\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t that how your smug atheists describe religion? \u00a0&#8220;Do what we tell you or some extra-terrestrial pseudo-mystical being will smite you?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Just saying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA &#8220;scientists&#8221; have skipped past holding &#8220;Nuremberg Trials&#8221; for &#8220;denialists&#8221;, have gone directly to invoking Krugman&#8217;s alien attack:. 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. Watching from afar, extraterrestrial beings might view changes in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-warmingcoolingchange","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21840"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21844,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21840\/revisions\/21844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}