Alien vs Temperature

We Have Concerns

Anthony Carboni/Jeff Cannata

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4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2018

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Did climate change already kill all the aliens we've been searching for? According to astrophysicist Adam Frank, it's certainly a possibility — and whether humans are doomed to the same fate may already be out of our hands. Jeff and Anthony once again consider the repercussions of running the air conditioner during a recording session.

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0:00.0	If you like the show and you want to see more of what Jeff and I do, we have a bunch of other
0:04.1	projects. For instance, you can watch me on the Star Wars show every Wednesday at youtube.com
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0:30.0	That's all I have to say about that. Yeah. Well said. This is we have concerns. Hi Jeff
0:38.9	cannot. Hi, Anthony. Carthbone Hello concerned citizens. I am only thoughtful in the preamble
0:44.4	to episodes. Yeah. That's the best stuff is there. Man. And if you want to hear that, you can,
0:51.3	we make it available to everybody who donates $3 and up per month on our Patreon. So go check
0:56.2	that out because that's where I save all my thoughtfulness and here is where I make all my dumb
1:01.4	fucking jokes. Speaking of which. Speaking of which, here's a story for you. Climate change. It
1:06.3	killed the aliens. And it's good to kill us too. All of them. Oh, you know how you look up in the
1:12.8	sky and you don't see any aliens. That was climate change. Oh, that explains it. There you go. Man,
1:18.8	it used to be you look up in the sky. Full aliens. Full aliens. And the climate was fantastic.
1:25.2	Picture like a 1946. That was when all the aliens. Yeah, just a nice balmy day over
1:30.7	Roswell, New Mexico. Oh, man. Aliens as far as the eye can see. Aliens. That's the ice tea.
1:36.4	Folding chair. Oh, you know what? You didn't even need to put on sunblock. If you wanted an alien,
1:40.8	you just reached up and you plucked it. Sometimes they plucked you. And then they plucked
1:48.4	another way and then they put you back. Yeah. Hey, there's an astrophysicist named Adam Frank.
1:55.7	He is from the University of Rochester in New York. Okay. He's the lead author of a new paper
2:00.3	that was published in the journal Astrobiology. Mm-hmm. It's all legit. It's all legit so far. This is
2:07.2	very legit. Very. So this paper is trying to take what he calls a 10,000 light year view of anthropogenic
2:16.8	climate change. So this is climate change across multiple planets. He's looking. Yeah. He's looking at
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