RE: Do you have a cool job title?
May 26, 2018 at 4:25 am
(This post was last modified: May 26, 2018 at 4:35 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(May 26, 2018 at 4:12 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Someone at NASA has the coolest job title ever - 'Planetary Protection Officer'. While this conjures up (for me at least) images of a rather dour-faced military type overseeing vast batteries of lasers designed to shoot holes in interstellar warships bent on dominating the Earth, the job is actually making sure our planetary landers don't contaminate other celestial bodies with Terran microbes and, conversely, that any microscopic life brought back to Earth doesn't get out of control and start melting our eyeballs.
The position is currently held by an astrobiologist called Lisa Pratt, who reminds me of my Aunt Nola.
Boru
-a grade schooler applied for that position, lol.
Obviously, they didnt get it (though, honestly, is that obvious or certain in todays america?). Still. Awesome, right?
(May 26, 2018 at 4:12 am)Jörmungandr Wrote: "Retired."
![[Image: dunno.gif]](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/ufs69p2mg80pfrd/dunno.gif)
The dream is real. I want that one bad.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
