Posted on 02/23/2018 5:17:12 PM PST by LibWhacker
This sounds like a good idea, especially considering that China or another country will get there eventually and then all bets are off.
NASA planetary protection officer?
Who came up with this title? These people don’t even have the technology in place to send a man to our closest planet, they haven’t been to the lunar surface in decades, but this person is the, “Planetary Protection Officer?
Pfff!
Only the government employs people on earth who’s job it is to protect Mars but not Chicago.
Microbial contamination will be good for Mars.
Terraforming will require it.
Is that like a School Resource Officer?
“This sounds like a good idea, especially considering that China or another country will get there eventually and then all bets are off.”
If the Chinese ever make it to Mars they will eat everything that crawls, those people will eat anything; centipedes, ox tails, bird nests, chicken feet.... China is a great civilization that has gone through some really horrible times and they learned to eat some crazy stuff to avoid starvation.
“The Office of Planetary Protection”
This office will grow in future administrations and be fueled by the dark money funds and the cabals. In another 94 years they will issue their proclamation:
“Attention all planets of the Solar Federation - we have assumed control, we have assumed control.”
“ox tails”
Perfectly slow cooked ox tail does not belong even near that list. Better than all but the finest steaks IMO.
Most oxtail is indeed bunk though. There is only a 15 minute window when it is perfect. If you dont time it right, you get rocks or slop
Space Ranger !!
Not A Flying Toy
“to prevent the contamination of Mars and other planets with microbes from Earth, and vice versa.”
The “vice versa” part worries me more.
Exactly, I was wondering if she was armed.
Chicken feet are awesome if the chef is good!
Might as well. Any microbes exposed to Mars’ atmosphere and radiation will likely die within seconds.
NASA planetary protection officer
We cant even protect a bunch of snot nose high school kids good luck with that
Maybe with a ray gun?
What if Mars has microbes that have adapted to the atmosphere and are impervious to the radiation ? If brought back here, what might happen ?
Even unmanned landers have planetary protection officers overseeing missions because microbes can hitchhike on unmanned landers as well as manned landers.
To me it’s nuts. I mean, why protect native microbes? If they haven’t been able to evolve beyond the single-cell stage in 4.5 billion years, they’re not likely to. So let’s just take over the planet for us, for humans, if we can.
Quite possibly the post of the week.
Bad things I’m sure. But I doubt that there is anything alive there.
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