NASA Gives New Meaning To Little 'Green' Men

Apparently its Muslim outreach program didn’t go so well, because now the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has joined the lunatic fringe in a speculative report about Earth’s potential “first contact.” In a joint study with Pennsylvania State University, a NASA scientist proposes one possible scenario for a less-than-friendly interaction between humans and ETs:

“Green” aliens might object to the environmental damage humans have caused on Earth and wipe us out to save the planet. “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.”

So let me get this straight…aliens would automatically share the left’s obsession with global warming, er, climate change? Aliens (no doubt because they are far superior in intellect) would instantly agree with Al Gore?

Remember that Psych 101 defense mechanism called projection? It happens when people imprint their own feelings, fears, anxieties, biases, and beliefs onto others. Perhaps the lefty scientist from NASA and his liberal PSU colleagues really, really, really want the aliens to worry about global warming as much as they do. What else would an enlightened alien race do than to destroy humanity to save the beleaguered planet from the man-made destruction we’ve wreaked upon it?

The only problem is, facts get in the way. There’s that pesky Climate Gate Scandal which showed how scientists studying alleged global climate change may have fudged or ignored data that did not support their theories. More recently, the chief scientist who studied polar bear deaths – linking them to global warming – is now under investigation for scientific misconduct.

Maybe – just maybe – aliens would look at our planet and not see any problem with CO2 levels and temperature changes. After all, aliens are unencumbered by fat research grants and humanity’s personal politics.

Here’s an alternate theory that NASA ought to consider. What if the aliens breathe CO2 — I mean snort it like coke heads — and come to Earth to learn how we’ve created so much of it (not that I think we have, but I’m humoring the kooks)? We just may be in line for an intergalactic Nobel Peace Prize for our industrial prowess. It’s as valid as the crazy-train theory about wanting to destroy us to save us.

It seems these days that NASA has too much free time. It’s no longer sending up shuttles, and with no clear space missions on the horizon, I guess speculating about tree-hugging aliens beats playing World of Warcraft all day long at Mission Control. We got our first hint of the low oxygen atmosphere at NASA Headquarters when its new Director, Charlie Bolden, told Al-Jazeera last year about his marching orders from President Obama:

“One, he wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math; he wanted me to expand our international relationships; and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science, math and engineering.”

My world is turned upside down. Making Muslims feel good and apologizing to little “green” men for our alleged devastation of Earth are now NASA priorities. And I always thought the agency was in the business of space exploration. “Houston, we have a BIG problem!”

Mike Angley is the award-winning author of the thriller series, the Child Finder trilogy. He is a retired USAF Colonel and 25-year career Special Agent with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (OSI). During his last assignment at Air Force Space Command, he was the chief architect of our nation’s space counterintelligence programs, exercising responsibility over anything entering or exiting the atmosphere. He’s never met a little green man.

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