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By definition, we pollute it just by being there. How much pollution is too much?
1 posted on 10/06/2015 7:37:52 AM PDT by Purdue77
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NASA Planetary Protection Officer Profiled (EPA for the planets)

I bet that he won't let me take my SUV with me to Mars!

2 posted on 10/06/2015 7:41:42 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (Who would EVER believe that the russkies would defend Christians, while AMERICA defends ragheads???)
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Do we need to clean up our Apollo junk?


3 posted on 10/06/2015 7:43:12 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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I guess that rules out colonization efforts....

Oh well, there are still the asteroids.


4 posted on 10/06/2015 7:43:47 AM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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And how much are we paying this new, useless Obamabot??? Earth=evil......everywhere else=good.....even though nowhere else could life be sustained.


5 posted on 10/06/2015 7:45:50 AM PDT by originalbuckeye ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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If a planet has no life, then there is no ecology to preserve.
Once we go there and start to "infect" it, none of it is native and does not need to be preserved unless we need it.

6 posted on 10/06/2015 7:46:48 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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Is there no problem that these jackballs don’t have a solution to?!?!? The arrogance!!


7 posted on 10/06/2015 7:47:29 AM PDT by Dr. Pritchett
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Don’t they already have a treaty saying no one can touch the water on Mars ,if there’s water on Mars


8 posted on 10/06/2015 7:47:49 AM PDT by butlerweave
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Ping.


10 posted on 10/06/2015 7:48:59 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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By definition, we pollute it just by being there. How much pollution is too much?

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.

11 posted on 10/06/2015 7:51:32 AM PDT by Drew68
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Nice work if you can get it. Do nothing but scream for obedience at all times, and raise your budget every year.


12 posted on 10/06/2015 7:53:07 AM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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I keep hoping we will polute. We should dump a baskeful of earth microbes on the planets and let them start their work.


13 posted on 10/06/2015 7:55:45 AM PDT by DannyTN
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NASA Planetary Protection Officer Catharine Conley, whose job

How much tax money is she sucking up? What is her salary?


15 posted on 10/06/2015 8:04:38 AM PDT by rfreedom4u (Rick Chollett for President!)
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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.


17 posted on 10/06/2015 8:15:56 AM PDT by wattsgnu
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So much for the new Volkswagen Mars rover.


20 posted on 10/06/2015 10:16:44 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (The 1st amendment is the voice and the 2nd is the teeth of freedom. Obama wants to knock out both.)
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