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".
The downside is the nagging feeling like you should be wearing oversized futuristic pauldrons and a ridiculous-looking Space Belt all the time.
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.
That is, I'd have to lose some weight first.
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(Also, it's prior art. USPTO, pay attention.)
The future: where everyone looks fabulous!
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/meet-nasa-s-one-an...
% as well as avoiding infection by alien organisms once sample returns become commonplace.
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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.