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Serg io wrote:
> 
> On 8/4/2017 2:14 AM, 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.
> 
> impossable to do that if it lands on it.  all things manufactured
> already have microbio contamination on them, as soon as exposed to air.
> 
> the only way is lots of hard radiation
> 
> >
> > 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.




Is a rock going to catch a cold????