NASA hiring someone to protect Earth from aliens, and paying six figures for it
By Katie Dangerfield
National Online Journalist, Breaking News Global News
NASA is on the lookout for someone to protect the Earth from an alien invasion.
The U.S. space agency is currently hiring a planetary protection officer and is offering a salary between $124,406 and $187,000 per year (USD)
The job involves preventing alien microbes from contaminating the Earth, as well as making sure human explorers do not harm other planets and moons they are trying to explore.
“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.
“NASA maintains policies for planetary protection applicable to all space flight missions that may intentionally or unintentionally carry Earth organisms and organic constituents to the planets or other solar system bodies, and any mission employing spacecraft, which are intended to return to Earth and its biosphere with samples from extraterrestrial targets of exploration.”
According to Business Insider, the planetary protection position was created after the U.S. ratified the Outer Space Treaty of 1967. Part of the international agreement is that any space mission must have a less than 1-in-10,000 chance of contaminating an alien world.
Qualifications?
If you’re hoping to apply for this job, there is a daunting qualifications list.
Advanced knowledge of planetary protection.
At least one year of experience as a top-level civilian government employee.
Advanced degree in physical science, engineering or mathematics.
The job also comes with a secret security clearance.
NASA hiring someone to protect Earth from aliens, and paying six figures for it
Personally I think they should hire these guys!
Well well well
Planetary protection? …. look no further. Being among a handful of people able to carry on a conversation with non-earth life-forms – without them getting all upperty, trying to ‘freeze’ you, and running off with your micro-wave (they’re fascinated by them) – I am more than qualified (post-grad quals in social work – UFO lingual experience – space cadet candidate extraordinaire) to protect earth from insidious attacks on our biosphere (despite the fact that we are fucking it up real quick ourselves). Disease from the heavens cannot be allowed to interfere with our own snug little disease mongering industry we all have worked hard for … so as a bio-cop of the Universe, I would stop this in its tracks … as well as kick start my career (and look good on my C.V.) as PM of the East Coast.
I’ll pass your CV on to NASA Dean, but don’t expect a straight answer, hehehe!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHOTPhitStU
6 figure salary to keep the lies buried
Cushy little job for someone who’s got a knack for telling porkies I guess!