{"id":11222,"date":"2014-05-22T20:10:33","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T03:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=11222"},"modified":"2014-05-23T00:01:04","modified_gmt":"2014-05-23T07:01:04","slug":"aliens-are-almost-definitely-out-there-seti-astronomers-tell-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/aliens-are-almost-definitely-out-there-seti-astronomers-tell-congress","title":{"rendered":"Aliens Are Almost Definitely Out There, SETI Astronomers Tell Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Huffington Post by Dominique Mosberge<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<object id=\"cspan-video-player\" width=\"508\" height=\"620\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6eae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/fpdownload.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0\" align=\"middle\"><param name='allowScriptAccess' value='true'\/><param name='movie' value='http:\/\/static.c-span.org\/assets\/swf\/CSPANPlayer.1399044287.swf?pid=319504-1'\/><param name='quality' value='high'\/><param name='bgcolor' value='#ffffff'\/><param name='allowFullScreen' value='true'\/><param name='flashvars' value='system=http:\/\/www.c-span.org\/common\/services\/flashXml.php?programid=347558&style=full&version=2014-01-23'\/><embed name='cspan-video-player' src='http:\/\/static.c-span.org\/assets\/swf\/CSPANPlayer.1399044287.swf?pid=319504-1' allowScriptAccess='always' bgcolor='#ffffff' quality='high' allowFullScreen='true' type='application\/x-shockwave-flash' pluginspage='http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer' flashvars='system=http:\/\/www.c-span.org\/common\/services\/flashXml.php?programid=347558&style=full&version=2014-01-23' align='middle' height='620' width='508'><\/embed><\/object>\n<\/div>\n<p>Aliens almost definitely exist.<\/p>\n<p>At least, that\u2019s what two astronomers told Congress this week, as they appealed for continued funding to research life beyond Earth.<\/p>\n<p>According to ABC News, Dan Werthimer, director of the SETI [search for extraterrestrial intelligence] Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley, told the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology Wednesday that the possibility of extraterrestrial microbial life is \u201cclose to 100 percent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2014\/05\/22\/aliens-congress-seti-astronomers_n_5370315.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Huffington Post by Dominique Mosberge Aliens almost definitely exist. At least, that\u2019s what two astronomers told Congress this week, as they appealed for continued funding to research life beyond Earth. According to ABC News, Dan Werthimer, director of the SETI [search for extraterrestrial intelligence] Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley, told the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11222","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}