Posted on 10/06/2015 7:37:52 AM PDT by Purdue77
The New York Times (10/6, Chang, Subscription Publication) posts a feature on NASA Planetary Protection Officer Catharine Conley, whose job “is not so much protecting Earth from aliens as protecting other planets from Earth.” Conley is responsible for making sure than NASA missions to Mars and elsewhere do not pollute or contaminate alien worlds.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
I bet that he won't let me take my SUV with me to Mars!
Do we need to clean up our Apollo junk?
I guess that rules out colonization efforts....
Oh well, there are still the asteroids.
And how much are we paying this new, useless Obamabot??? Earth=evil......everywhere else=good.....even though nowhere else could life be sustained.
Is there no problem that these jackballs don’t have a solution to?!?!? The arrogance!!
Don’t they already have a treaty saying no one can touch the water on Mars ,if there’s water on Mars
“Oh well, there are still the asteroids.”
Are you kidding? Asteroids are priceless, pristine ecosystems.
Ping.
Any bacterial pollution is too much. At issue is the salty, flowing brine discovered on Mars. It's close enough that we could send the Curiosity rover to investigate it except, oops, Curiosity wasn't properly sterilized. Nobody ever expected to find a flowing liquid on Mars so measures weren't taken to sterilize rovers to the level needed to prevent this type of contamination. Now we have a massive, wasted opportunity at exploration. The effort here is to not let that happen again.
Nice work if you can get it. Do nothing but scream for obedience at all times, and raise your budget every year.
I keep hoping we will polute. We should dump a baskeful of earth microbes on the planets and let them start their work.
I wonder if this ‘law’ enforcement only works on govt. run entities. If Mars is explored by private industry, say Elon Musk, do they have any authority? I would think not. Anyway, anything that the UN restricts, I seem to be against. If it was me, I doubt I would listen. Let them try to stop me.
NASA Planetary Protection Officer Catharine Conley, whose job
How much tax money is she sucking up? What is her salary?
Hmmmm. At the rate of progress nasa seems to be making these days, the planets may not have anything to worry about for a long time. Will Waste Management get the contract to clean up the debris we left on the moon and on Mars? Or will the epa sub it out to someone who will make it a worse mess than the original mess.
If the Russians or Chinese get to these places, I’m sure they will follow U.N. protocol. Like the time China fired a weapon at a satellite in 2007 and added millions of pieces of space debris to earth’s orbit. Yeah, they’ll follow the rules.
Pretty much describes 90% of the government.
So much for the new Volkswagen Mars rover.
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