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I'm kinda jealous of job titles that would come out of this department... "Director of Planetary Defense", "Strategic Interstellar Command Coordinator", "Chief

I'm kinda jealous of job titles that would come out of this department... "Director of Planetary Defense", "Strategic Interstellar Command Coordinator", "Chief Planetary Defense Officer".

ashark 11y ago
My first thought was "I want to work there just so I can tell people I'm with Planetary Defense when they ask what I do for a living". The downside is the nagging feeling like you should be wearing oversized futuristic pauldrons and a ridiculous-looking Space Belt all the time.
- pavel_lishin 11y ago
  But that's trivially solved by just buying some oversized futuristic pauldrons and a ridiculous-looking Space Belt.
  - krapp 11y ago
    You can't just buy those, you'd look like an utter fool. You have to appropriate sufficient black budget funds to have the belt fabricated at Area 51 out of meteoric iron and top secret metamaterials.
    - qwerty_asdf 11y ago
      We're going to have to get the ball rolling somehow, when it comes to space fashion. When some of us get re-orged to that remote mining outpost and are forced to share quarters with some cheap, rubbery-skinned, impolite replicants, we're just going to have to make do, and don some superfluous equipment from sporting goods.
- TeMPOraL 11y ago
  Depends on the franchise type I guess. MCU's S.H.I.E.L.D. wear and the Starfleet uniforms from First Contact and later look pretty smart, actually. I wouldn't be afraid to go out with something like this[0]. That is, I'd have to lose some weight first. [0] - http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121217161450/memoryalpha/en/images/e/ee/Starfleet_uniforms,_post-2373.jpg http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121217161450/memoryalph...
  - sandworm101 11y ago
    But no pockets? And your cellphone glued to your chest?
    - TeMPOraL 11y ago
      Didn't you hear that wearables are the future? ;). (Also, it's prior art. USPTO, pay attention.)
  - ethbro 11y ago
    If they can create "Tea, Earl Grey, Hot" from the ether, then they've probably got a handle on sugar substitutes. The future: where everyone looks fabulous!
jloughry 11y ago
The "International Earth Rotation Service" is a thing that exists [1]. It's where leap seconds come from. [1] iers.org
- logfromblammo 11y ago
  And if you fail to pay their bill, you'd better hope you like the position of the sun where it is when the service shuts down. And don't forget that there may be an extra "tidal unlocking fee" that you'll have to pay before it gets reinstated.
- taejo 11y ago
  http://www.iers.org http://www.iers.org, actually: iers.org doesn't resolve.
  - lutusp 11y ago
    > http://www.iers.org http://www.iers.org, actually: iers.org doesn't resolve. That's an embarrassing configuration oversight -- it doesn't cost any more to add the "www" prefix to one's DNS record, and in the worst case the two names can be merged as one or the other. In the worst case, someone could hijack the unused form and use it to redirect traffic anywhere they want.
civilian 11y ago
"Senior Engineer in Asteroid Dodging"
twic 11y ago
It's in another department, but how about Planetary Protection Officer: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/meet-nasa-s-one-and-only-planetary-protection-officer/ http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/meet-nasa-s-one-an... http://planetaryprotection.nasa.gov/about http://planetaryprotection.nasa.gov/about
- lutusp 11y ago
  That's ironic -- The PPO is responsible for protecting other planets from us %, but this discussion is mostly about protecting us from space rocks. They're related, but in some ways they're opposites. % as well as avoiding infection by alien organisms once sample returns become commonplace.
  - twic 11y ago
    I'm imagining the turf battle when a space rock shows up on a collision course but also carrying extraterrestrial microbes.

I'm kinda jealous of job titles that would come out of this department... "Director of Planetary Defense", "Strategic Interstellar Command Coordinator", "Chief Planetary Defense Officer".

ashark 11y ago

My first thought was "I want to work there just so I can tell people I'm with Planetary Defense when they ask what I do for a living". The downside is the nagging feeling like you should be wearing oversized futuristic pauldrons and a ridiculous-looking Space Belt all the time.

pavel_lishin 11y ago
But that's trivially solved by just buying some oversized futuristic pauldrons and a ridiculous-looking Space Belt.
- krapp 11y ago
  You can't just buy those, you'd look like an utter fool. You have to appropriate sufficient black budget funds to have the belt fabricated at Area 51 out of meteoric iron and top secret metamaterials.
  - qwerty_asdf 11y ago
    We're going to have to get the ball rolling somehow, when it comes to space fashion. When some of us get re-orged to that remote mining outpost and are forced to share quarters with some cheap, rubbery-skinned, impolite replicants, we're just going to have to make do, and don some superfluous equipment from sporting goods.
TeMPOraL 11y ago
Depends on the franchise type I guess. MCU's S.H.I.E.L.D. wear and the Starfleet uniforms from First Contact and later look pretty smart, actually. I wouldn't be afraid to go out with something like this[0]. That is, I'd have to lose some weight first. [0] - http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121217161450/memoryalpha/en/images/e/ee/Starfleet_uniforms,_post-2373.jpg http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121217161450/memoryalph...
- sandworm101 11y ago
  But no pockets? And your cellphone glued to your chest?
  - TeMPOraL 11y ago
    Didn't you hear that wearables are the future? ;). (Also, it's prior art. USPTO, pay attention.)
- ethbro 11y ago
  If they can create "Tea, Earl Grey, Hot" from the ether, then they've probably got a handle on sugar substitutes. The future: where everyone looks fabulous!

jloughry 11y ago

The "International Earth Rotation Service" is a thing that exists [1]. It's where leap seconds come from. [1] iers.org

logfromblammo 11y ago
And if you fail to pay their bill, you'd better hope you like the position of the sun where it is when the service shuts down. And don't forget that there may be an extra "tidal unlocking fee" that you'll have to pay before it gets reinstated.
taejo 11y ago
http://www.iers.org http://www.iers.org, actually: iers.org doesn't resolve.
- lutusp 11y ago
  > http://www.iers.org http://www.iers.org, actually: iers.org doesn't resolve. That's an embarrassing configuration oversight -- it doesn't cost any more to add the "www" prefix to one's DNS record, and in the worst case the two names can be merged as one or the other. In the worst case, someone could hijack the unused form and use it to redirect traffic anywhere they want.

civilian 11y ago

"Senior Engineer in Asteroid Dodging"

twic 11y ago

It's in another department, but how about Planetary Protection Officer: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/meet-nasa-s-one-and-only-planetary-protection-officer/ http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/meet-nasa-s-one-an... http://planetaryprotection.nasa.gov/about http://planetaryprotection.nasa.gov/about

lutusp 11y ago
That's ironic -- The PPO is responsible for protecting other planets from us %, but this discussion is mostly about protecting us from space rocks. They're related, but in some ways they're opposites. % as well as avoiding infection by alien organisms once sample returns become commonplace.
- twic 11y ago
  I'm imagining the turf battle when a space rock shows up on a collision course but also carrying extraterrestrial microbes.