{"id":113108,"date":"2020-09-16T18:22:40","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T01:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/carl-sagan-predicted-life-on-venus-in-1967-we-may-be-close-to-proving-him-right"},"modified":"2020-09-16T18:22:40","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T01:22:40","slug":"carl-sagan-predicted-life-on-venus-in-1967-we-may-be-close-to-proving-him-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/carl-sagan-predicted-life-on-venus-in-1967-we-may-be-close-to-proving-him-right","title":{"rendered":"Carl Sagan predicted life on Venus in 1967. We may be close to proving him right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/carl-sagan-predicted-life-on-venus-in-1967-we-may-be-close-to-proving-him-right2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Millions of space nerds reacted with joy Monday to a study showing the atmosphere of Venus contains phosphine, a chemical byproduct of biological life. But none would have been more thrilled or less surprised by the discovery than the late, great Carl Sagan \u2014 who said this day might come more than 50 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Now best remembered as the presenter of the most-viewed-ever PBS series Cosmos, the author of the book behind the movie Contact, and the guy who put gold disks of Earth music on NASA\u2019s Voyager missions, Sagan actually got his start studying our closest two planets. He became an astronomer after being inspired as a kid by Edgar Rice Burroughs\u2019 space fantasies, set on Mars and Venus.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\u2018Cosmos\u2019 presenter Carl Sagan was one of the world\u2019s top experts on Venus, and he saw first what scientists have just announced: possible life on Venus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millions of space nerds reacted with joy Monday to a study showing the atmosphere of Venus contains phosphine, a chemical byproduct of biological life. But none would have been more thrilled or less surprised by the discovery than the late, great Carl Sagan \u2014 who said this day might come more than 50 years ago. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,19,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-chemistry","category-media-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113108","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}