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Sylvia Else wrote:
> 
> On 4/08/2017 5:07 PM, The Starmaker wrote:
> > Sylvia Else wrote:
> >>
> >> On 3/08/2017 2:34 AM, The Starmaker wrote:
> >>> The Starmaker wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/474414000
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Nasa Is Hiring a Planetary Protection Officer to Save Earth from Aliens
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> http://www.newsweek.com/nasa-hiring-planetary-protection-officer-save-earth-aliens-645254
> >>>
> >>
> >> Looks like neither you, nor Newsweek, are capable of reading a clear
> >> description of what the job is actually about.
> >>
> >> Sylvia.
> >
> >
> > The job description title is clear..
> >
> > "Planetary Protection Officer"
> >
> >
> > The question is..."Protection" from What????
> >
> >
> > Can you answer that Mrs. Else?
> >
> 
> The responsibility is to protect the planets and moons of the Solar
> System from microbiological contamination by NASA's space probes.

Oh, I get it...NASA gonna get in da protection racket..

NASA tells all the other planets "We're selling you Protection!"

Aliens:"Protection from who?"

NASA:"Protection from Us!"




> 
> Europa is of special concern because it is almost certainly a liquid
> water ocean covered by ice, and might conceivably be some kind of life
> there.
> 
> Sylvia.


you got that glaze look in your eyes...is any of your cats named
Jupiter?

Here pluto, pluto, pluto...


Me OW.