{"id":116088,"date":"2020-11-20T06:16:55","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T14:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/iconic-arecibo-alien-hunting-observatory-will-be-demolished"},"modified":"2020-11-20T06:16:55","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T14:16:55","slug":"iconic-arecibo-alien-hunting-observatory-will-be-demolished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/iconic-arecibo-alien-hunting-observatory-will-be-demolished","title":{"rendered":"Iconic Arecibo Alien-Hunting Observatory Will Be Demolished"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/iconic-arecibo-alien-hunting-observatory-will-be-demolished.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a sad day. The observatory has not only been used to observe radio wave signals in deep space. It\u2019s also become an iconic landmark over the decades after being featured in countless films and TV shows including the 1995 James Bond blockbuster \u201cGoldenEye.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The observatory has also made significant contributions to the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/astronomers-have-detected-strange-signals-coming-from-a-star-11-light-years-away\">spotting mysterious radio signals<\/a> emanating from distant corners of the universe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis decision is not an easy one for NSF to make, but safety of people is our number one priority,\u201d Sean Jones, the assistant director for the mathematical and physical sciences directorate at NSF, told reporters today over a conference call, as quoted by <em>The Verge<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a sad day. The observatory has not only been used to observe radio wave signals in deep space. It\u2019s also become an iconic landmark over the decades after being featured in countless films and TV shows including the 1995 James Bond blockbuster \u201cGoldenEye.\u201d The observatory has also made significant contributions to the Search for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,1509,2229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-entertainment","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116088","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}