Recruitment drive comes amid increasing focus on an asteroid with a low – but growing – likelihood of hitting earth in seven years
China has begun recruiting for a planetary defence force after risk assessments determined that an asteroid could conceivably hit Earth in 2032.
Job ads posted online by China’s State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence (SASTIND) this week, sought young loyal graduates focused on aerospace engineering, international cooperation and asteroid detection.
About Author
More Stories
As a geneticist, I will not mourn 23andMe and its jumble of useless health information | Adam Rutherford
At-home saliva test for prostate cancer better than blood test, study suggests
US scientists create most comprehensive circuit diagram of mammalian brain