Posted on 02/23/2018 5:17:12 PM PST by LibWhacker
Good point. Btw, I understand the concern over the transfer of cooties and why spacecraft need to be clean. It’s the title, “Planetary Protection Officer” which seems a bit presumptuous. What do they do when a spacecraft fails and slams into the surface exploding, spewing nasty emissions, gases and possibly radiation everywhere? I would guess on days like that, the Planetary Protection Officer would be missing, or “elsewhere”.
We don't need no stinkin' Planetary Protection Officer!!!
Late last year, longtime Planetary Protection Officer Cassie Conley, who favored strict enforcement standards, left NASA after an agency reorganization forced her to reapply for her job. Some Mars scientists hoped that a new officer could start a fresh conversation. Pratt, who led the Mars Exploration Analysis Group from 2013 to 2016, seems to be open to one.
There's really no end to the layers of the Soetero onion. Thanks LibWhacker.
There are viruses her on Earth. They aren’t technically ‘alive’.
Oops. Meant HERE, not HER.
Yeah, viruses are weird. They do need a host with DNA or RNA to reproduce though don’t they?
They are like vampires.
It has been suggested that viruses were the first form of life on Earth.
“NASA planetary protection officer?”
He’s just the desk-bound bureaucrat.
The guy doing the grunt work out in the field is Quisp, Interplanetary Agent.
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