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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNASA is looking for someone to protect Earth from aliens and the job pays a six-figure salary
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/02/nasa-is-looking-for-someone-to-protect-earth-from-aliens--and-the-job-pays-a-six-figure-salary.htmlEver fancied yourself as a bit of a hero? How about the protector of mankind? Well now NASA is looking for just that and it'll pay a six-figure salary for the honor.
The U.S. space agency is currently in search not of life on other planets but of a "Planetary Protection Officer", who can protect Earth and its inhabitants from alien invasion.
The job, which is offering a salary of between $124,406 and $187,000 per year, involves preventing alien microbes from contaminating the Earth, as well as ensuring human space explorers do not damage other planets, moons and objects in space.
"Planetary protection is concerned with the avoidance of organic-constituent and biological contamination in human and robotic space exploration," NASA wrote in the job posting on its website late last month.
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NASA is looking for someone to protect Earth from aliens and the job pays a six-figure salary (Original Post)
jpak
Aug 2017
OP
It will need to be a powerful substance to keep the stupid from leaking out. though
bellmartin
Aug 2017
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TlalocW
(15,384 posts)1. My plan is simple
Some sort of light capturing substance that surrounds the entire planet, which will make it look like all the lights are off, and we're not home.
TlalocW
bellmartin
(218 posts)2. Chapeau! I'll write a letter of recommendation for you.
bellmartin
(218 posts)3. It will need to be a powerful substance to keep the stupid from leaking out. though
B2G
(9,766 posts)4. You would think protecting the planet would pay more.
longship
(40,416 posts)5. Do not forget near Earth asteroids and rogue comets.
comets are especially worrisome because they move FAST, since they tend to come from the Kuyper belt, or the Oort Cloud, in the outer reaches of the solar system.
Planetary protection is not just about bacterial/viral/whatever Andromeda Strain scenarios. Actually, it is highly unlikely that a space "germ" would be able to succesfully be able to infect Earth life. This would be especially true if the space germ had an origin different from Earth.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)6. May I suggest ...
lpbk2713
(42,760 posts)7. Put the word out that Earth has cooties.
And no one wants Earth cooties.
Loki Liesmith
(4,602 posts)8. WAVE MOTION GUN
problem solved