{"id":108931,"date":"2020-06-20T15:02:17","date_gmt":"2020-06-20T22:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/the-case-for-colonizing-mars"},"modified":"2020-06-20T15:02:17","modified_gmt":"2020-06-20T22:02:17","slug":"the-case-for-colonizing-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/the-case-for-colonizing-mars","title":{"rendered":"The Case for Colonizing Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-case-for-colonizing-mars.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This post by Dr. Robert Zubrin originally appeared at National Space Society.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mars Is The New World<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Among extraterrestrial bodies in our solar system, Mars is singular in that it possesses all the raw materials required to support not only life, but a new branch of human civilization. This uniqueness is illustrated most clearly if we contrast Mars with the Earth\u2019s Moon, the most frequently cited alternative location for extraterrestrial human colonization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post by Dr. Robert Zubrin originally appeared at National Space Society. Mars Is The New World Among extraterrestrial bodies in our solar system, Mars is singular in that it possesses all the raw materials required to support not only life, but a new branch of human civilization. This uniqueness is illustrated most clearly if [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":554,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108931","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\/554"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}