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See You Later, I’m Gonna Protect The Planet!
See You Later, I’m Gonna Protect The Planet!
See You Later, I’m Gonna Protect The Planet!
I like my job. It's fun. Not a bad way to spend the day. And I like living in Quincy, the town I've made my home for the past 19 months. But man, do I love space. And NASA. And Star Trek. And outrageous job titles. So you can imagine how excited I was when news broke that NASA was hiring a, and this is the real title, Planetary Protection Officer...
NASA Holding Noon CST Press Conference
NASA Holding Noon CST Press Conference
NASA Holding Noon CST Press Conference
NASA recently announced they're holding a press conference today at noon central time, but offered up no details on what the press conference would pertain to, other than they'd be discussing recent findings regarding exoplanets, or planets orbiting stars other than Sol (the sun)...
Hey Farmers, Wanna Help Grow Food… ON MARS?!
Hey Farmers, Wanna Help Grow Food… ON MARS?!
Hey Farmers, Wanna Help Grow Food… ON MARS?!
Remember in The Martian when Matt Damon had to grow potatoes out of human waste in a makeshift greenhouse on Mars? And no, I'm not above referring to them as poo-tatoes. Well now, with NASA, Jeff Bezos' Amazon, Elon Musk's Tesla and Denis Muilenburg's Boeing all announcing plans to get people to the red planet in the near future, a small independent, global collective is working on how to get food
Could A Giant Meteor Hit Earth?
Could A Giant Meteor Hit Earth?
Could A Giant Meteor Hit Earth?
Short Answer: Yes. Long Answer: Yes, but not for at least another 100 years. According to NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) aka "Intruder Alert!" As recently as two weeks ago, NASA's Intruder Alert system identified an asteroid that would swing very, very close to Earth, only 310,000 miles away, to be exact...

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