Taxpayer dollars being used to protect the environment on Mars - Really! You can't make this stuff up!

By Ed Straker

Believe it or not, NASA has at least one employee whose job is environmental protection on Mars. Seriously.  At the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Catharine A. Conley has a lofty job title: planetary protection officer......Even in the harsh environs of Mars — cold, dry, bombarded by ultraviolet light.....The concern is that some of them might not only survive but thrive. 

 

There are no animals on Mars. No Martian rabbits. No Martian deer, no Martian antelope, no Martian Pomeranians. There are no plants on Mars. No Martian lettuce. No Martian carrots. No nothing. We have photographed most of the planet. There's nothing there. At most, there is a remote possibility there might be some bacteria we have not yet discovered.  But basically, it's a dead planet, and yes, we know this for a fact.  So who cares if microbes from the Earth "contaminate" Mars? There is no ecosystem to contaminate. It's a dead planet.......[we may] someday colonize Mars....... we will unavoidably bring microbes with us. And if we never colonize Mars, it simply won't matter.  And yet, your taxpayer dollars are going to pay at least the salary of one useless employee to safeguard the empty "environment" on Mars.....To Read More....