NASA has a job opening for someone to defend Earth from aliens

Woah 'business insider' posts shared on LinkedIn looks just like 4chan these days.

>>9077868
I found that most non-fiction books read like today's uncited blogs. Kind of a bummer really.

bullshit

>>9077792
I lived with planetary protection interns while I was at JPL last summer. They're the ones that keep us from ethically fucking up the places we explore. Most of them were biology students.

Sounds like a cool job, but you would probably need to be the best of the best to get it. There are probably fewer planetary protection positions in the US than there are astronauts.

>>9077792
This is no more absurd than any other grant chasing proposal.

It's against microbes, not ayylmaos, so it's fucking nothing.
https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/474414000/

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>>9077792
>dumbfuck who doesn't know or care what a planetary protection officer does
>MUH ALIENS AYY
I left /sci/ because of brainlets like you.

how are alien microbes not aliens?

>>9078209
It wasn't the spains who murdered everyone in America, it were the microbes.

>>9078114
>you would probably need to be the best of the best to get it.

At what? Since we literally have no idea what we are defending against, we have no idea how to go about it.

Everybody on /sci/ needs to submit a resume.

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>>9078638
>I left /sci/


Then how...

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I got the perfect solution: just don't go. We don't need it. That space stuff and wotnot. Where's my $187,000.

>>9077792
The media is hyping the shit out of this for literally no reason. Popsci media is going off today about how NASA is hiring someone to "protect earth from aliens", "save earth", "guard us from aliens".

It's literally drafting protocols for preventing cross contamination of microorganisms between planets. You want to prevent microbes from being transmitted from Earth to another body on a spacecraft, both to preserve the integrity of the other planet/asteroid/whatever and prevent false positives when finding life. Imagine how lame it would be if NASA made big announcements about finding microbial life on Mars, only for it to turn out to be an Earth organism that hitched a ride. And of course in the event of finding microbes on another celestial body, you don't want to accidentally bring them back to Earth and wreak havoc.

The planetary protection officer is the guy who drafts SOPs and other protocols for spacecraft sterilization, as well as cataloguing microorganisms that can survive sterilization procedures in a genetic database. There are a ton of extremophiles/spores that can survive the typical procedure of H2O2 deposition, high heat and UV.

I almost ended up working as a planetary protection officer for JPL but ended up taking a better offer elsewhere.

9080758
spicy shitpost friend
a shame you don't deserve a (You) for it

>>9080750
They protect Earth's biosphere and prevent it from contaminating the environments we explore in space. It is not ayyyliens, it is about keeping other planets clean as well as our own. As such, the position is well-suited to people with backgrounds in biology (like I said earlier).

Most people submit CVs after they finish undergrad. If you still have a resume you're the one that should leave sweetie ;^).