FEEDBACK

摘要

ITS a job opportunity that comes with a big responsibility: saving an entire planet. Have-a-go heroes are abuzz with the news that NASA is hiring a planetary protection officer. Feedback is already encouraged to apply, given the rich history of journalists with a side gig in saving the world, from Clark Kent to Peter Parker. We're therefore disappointed to discover that the role involves saving aliens from Earth instead of the other way round, by sanitising spacecraft "that may intentionally or unintentionally carry Earth organisms and organic constituents to the planets". The job listing contains no mention of costumes, but surely nobody would begrudge the planetary protection officer arriving in a cape - and perhaps also a pair of tourmaline-studded wonderpants (12 August)?