{"id":100040,"date":"2019-12-22T11:03:56","date_gmt":"2019-12-22T19:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/aliens-could-have-explored-the-galaxy-and-visited-earth-already-scientists-say"},"modified":"2019-12-22T11:03:56","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T19:03:56","slug":"aliens-could-have-explored-the-galaxy-and-visited-earth-already-scientists-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/aliens-could-have-explored-the-galaxy-and-visited-earth-already-scientists-say","title":{"rendered":"Aliens Could Have Explored The Galaxy And Visited Earth Already, Scientists Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/aliens-could-have-explored-the-galaxy-and-visited-earth-already-scientists-say2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com.au\/new-3d-map-of-milky-way-warped-shape-2019-7\">Milky Way<\/a> could be teeming with interstellar alien civilizations, according to a new study. We just don\u2019t know about it because they haven\u2019t paid us a visit in 10 million years.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/article\/10.3847\/1538-3881\/ab31a3#ajab31a3s5\">study<\/a>, published last month in <em>The Astronomical Journal<\/em>, posits that intelligent extraterrestrial life could be taking its time to explore the galaxy, harnessing star systems\u2019 movement to make star-hopping easier.<\/p>\n<p>The work is a new response to a question known as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/search-for-aliens-fermi-paradox-solution-planetary-scientist-alan-stern-2017-12\">Fermi Paradox<\/a>, which asks why we haven\u2019t detected signs of extraterrestrial intelligence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Milky Way could be teeming with interstellar alien civilizations, according to a new study. We just don\u2019t know about it because they haven\u2019t paid us a visit in 10 million years. The study, published last month in The Astronomical Journal, posits that intelligent extraterrestrial life could be taking its time to explore the galaxy, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-existential-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}