describing people who only care about eating, sleeping, making money, and owning crap. Very unimaginative, uncultured people with no concept of the arts, history, language, faith, travel, or why any those things should be valued. Has not visited a library or museum since the 7th grade. Doesn't know the name of a bluebird (really). Like Mr. Banks in Mary Poppins, they "can't see past the end of their nose".

The safeguarding of Earth and other worlds from biological cross-contamination (i.e. billionaires with too much time on their hands).

Also known as “planetary protection.” Planetary protection / quarantine “reflects both the unknown nature of the space environment and the desire of the scientific community to preserve the pristine nature of celestial bodies until they can be studied in detail.”

There are two types of interplanetary contamination. Forward contamination is the transfer of viable organisms from Earth to another celestial body. Back contamination is the transfer of extraterrestrial organisms, if such exist, back to the Earth's biosphere.

(n) a person of actual or strongly suspected low breeding and/or intellect who chronically and infuriatingly annoys those of higher breeding and/or intellect with their obnoxious demeanor and blatant, unrestrained numbskullery.

(adj) a term describing an act that is shameless and/or severely lacking in any form of class, good breeding and/or intellect.

1. A test that only needed to be taken by 12th graders in the past. Now the school board has forced students in grade 10 and up to take them.

2. Pointless