For next Planetary Protection Office. When NASA was asked, "Why futurecurrrents?", the head of NASA without hesitation responded in no uncertain terms: "futurecurrents has shown the determination, dedication, fearlessness and devotion to fight lying trolls on ET. futurecurrents has The Right Stuff". (CNN)NASA wants you to be its real-life guardian of the planet. The space agency is looking for a planetary protection officer, someone to guard the planet from "organic-constituent and biological contamination in human and robotic space exploration." In other words, the officer's responsibilities include ensuring humans don't contaminate space, and other organisms don't contaminate Earth either. Doing so will maintain worlds in their natural states and avoid contaminating explored environments, NASA says. The chosen one will be "responsible for the leadership of NASA's planetary protection capability, maintenance of planetary protection policies, and oversight of their implementation by NASA's space flight missions," according to the job listing. But it's unclear whether the new hire will be replacing Catharine Conley, who's listed as NASA's current planetary protection officer. Protecting the planet is no easy task. Interested candidates should have advanced knowledge of planetary protection, the agency says. Part of the job perks include frequent travel -- no word yet on whether it'll be to space. And the pay is not too shabby, either. It starts at about $127,000 a year. http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/03/health/nasa-planetary-position-trnd/index.html
If Everyone Ate Beans Instead of Beef With one dietary change, the U.S. could almost meet greenhouse-gas emission goals. Ecoanxiety is an emerging condition. Named in 2011, the American Psychological Association recently described it as the dread and helplessness that come with “watching the slow and seemingly irrevocable impacts of climate change unfold, and worrying about the future for oneself, children, and later generations.” It’s not a formal diagnosis. Anxiety is traditionally defined by an outsized stress response to a given stimulus. In this case, the stimulus is real, as are the deleterious effects of stress on the body. This sort of disposition toward ecological-based distress does not pair well with a president who has denied the reality of the basis for this anxiety. Donald Trump has called climate change a fabrication on the part of “the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.” He has also led the United States to become the only G20 country that will not honor the Paris Climate Accord, and who has appointed fossil-fuel advocates to lead the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Agency. For people who experience climate-related anxiety, this all serves as a sort of exacerbation by presidential gaslight. The remedy for a condition like this is knowing what can be done to mitigate environmental degradation, from within in a country singularly committed to it. Like what? ... https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/08/if-everyone-ate-beans-instead-of-beef/535536/
So now the radical Vegetarians don't want you to eat beef and will use climate change as an excuse to force a change in your behavior. Everyone seeing the trend here? Let's discuss why humans have canine teeth. Americans eat more beef and meat, a trend that is expected to continue https://www.usatoday.com/story/mone...meat-trend-thats-expected-continue/435331001/
No doubt Special Counsel Mueller will want to look into this. Or maybe just leave it to the Ninth Circuit.
I was reading this, and the first thing that comes to mind is that if everyone on planet earth started eating beans on a massive scale, we may be jumping from the pot into the fire: