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08-20-2011

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Aliens May Strike Humans To Save The Galaxy: Study

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Beyond endangering the earthly inhabitants, humans may have posed a serious threat to the entire galaxy, possibly prompting aliens to destroy humanity in order to end global warming and save the rest of the galaxy from being contaminated as well.

Surprisingly, the suggestion comes from one of NASA's scientists.

The scenario was brought up in a joint study by Penn State University and the NASA Planetary Science Division, titled "Would Contact with Extraterrestrials Benefit or Harm Humanity? A Scenario Analysis."

"A preemptive strike would be particularly likely in the early phases of our expansion because a civilization may become increasingly difficult to destroy as it continues to expand," the study says. "Humanity may just now be entering the period in which its rapid civilizational expansion could be detected by an ETI (extraterrestrial intelligence) because our expansion is changing the composition of the Earth's atmosphere, via greenhouse gas emissions."

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kpsewhich

KPSEWHICH(1)						      General Commands Manual						      KPSEWHICH(1)

NAME

       kpsewhich - standalone path lookup and and expansion for kpathsea

SYNOPSIS

       kpsewhich [options] [filenames]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page is not meant to be exhaustive.	The complete documentation for this version of TeX can be found in the info file or manual
       Kpathsea: A library for path searching.

       kpsewhich is used as a standalone front-end of the kpathsea library that can be used to examine variables and find files.  When the -format
       option is not given, the search path used when looking for a file is inferred from the name given, by looking for a known extension.  If no
       known extension is found, the search path for TeX source files is used.

OPTIONS

       kpsewhich accepts the following options:

       -debug num
	      Set debugging flags.

       -D num Use a base resolution of num; the default, set by the installer, is typically 600.

       -dpi num
	      As -D.

       -engine string
	      Set $engine in the environment, which is used in some search paths.

       -expand-braces string
	      Print variable and brace expansion of string.

       -expand-path string
	      Print complete path expansion of string.

       -expand-var string
	      Print variable expansion of string.

       -format name
	      Use file type name.  See the info manual for a list of valid names, or use the -help option to print the list.

       -help  Print help message and exit.

       -interactive
	      Ask for additional filenames to look up.

       -mktex fmt
	      enable mktexfmt generation.  (fmt=pk/mf/tex/tfm)

       -mode string
	      Set device name for $MAKETEX_MODE to string; no default.

       -must-exist
	      Search the disk as well as ls-R if necessary.

       -no-mktex fmt
	      disable mktexfmt generation.  (fmt=pk/mf/tex/tfm)

       -path string
	      Search in the path string.

       -progname string
	      Set program name to string.

       -show-path name
	      Output search path for file type name.  See the info manual for a list of valid names, or use the -help option to print the list.

       -var-value variable
	      Print the expansion of variable.

       -version
	      Print version information and exit.

SEE ALSO

       mktexlsr(1), mktexmf(1), mktexpk(1), mktextfm(1).

Kpathsea 6.1.0							   1 March 2011 						      KPSEWHICH(1)