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Post by grumpy » Wed. Aug. 02, 2017 11:27 am

NASA has a job opening for someone to defend Earth from aliens — and it pays a six-figure salary

http://nordic.businessinsider.com/nasa-planetary-protection- ... facebook.c

https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/474414000/


 
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Post by Richard S. » Wed. Aug. 02, 2017 11:40 am

grumpy wrote:NASA has a job opening for someone to defend Earth from aliens — and it pays a six-figure salary

http://nordic.businessinsider.com/nasa-planetary-protection- ... facebook.c

https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/474414000/
Did you read the description? One of the concerns with space exploration is introducing a foreign organism whether it's the world you are exploring or bringing it back here. There is all kinds of problems here on earth with invasive species killing trees, screwing up the ecosystems of waterways etc. The potential exists for that to happen on a global scale and could be catastrophic whether it's earth or some other world.

While on the topic there is bacterial organisms they have extracted from ice cores that may be 200K years old, they could survive in space in similar conditions for an indefinite amount of time. One of the theories about how life started on earth is that it arrived here from another world.

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