{"id":121887,"date":"2021-04-24T06:22:22","date_gmt":"2021-04-24T13:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/martin-rees-and-frederick-lamb-on-humanitys-fate"},"modified":"2021-04-24T06:22:22","modified_gmt":"2021-04-24T13:22:22","slug":"martin-rees-and-frederick-lamb-on-humanitys-fate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/martin-rees-and-frederick-lamb-on-humanitys-fate","title":{"rendered":"Martin Rees and Frederick Lamb on humanity\u2019s fate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/martin-rees-and-frederick-lamb-on-humanitys-fate2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rees explained how his astronomy background meshes with his concern for humanity\u2019s fate:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>People often ask does being an astronomer have any effect on one\u2019s attitude toward these things. I think it does in a way, because it makes us aware of the long-range future. We\u2019re aware that it\u2019s taken about 4 billion years for life to evolve from simple beginnings to our biosphere of which we are a part, but we also know that the sun is less than halfway through its life and the universe may go on forever. So we are not the culmination of evolution. Post-humans are going to have far longer to evolve. We can\u2019t conceive what they\u2019d be like, but if life is a rarity in the universe, then, of course, the stakes are very high if we snuff things out this century.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bottom line: From nuclear weapons to biowarfare to cyberattacks, humanity has much to overcome. Martin Rees and Frederick Lamb discuss the obstacles we face as we look forward to humanity\u2019s future on Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rees explained how his astronomy background meshes with his concern for humanity\u2019s fate: People often ask does being an astronomer have any effect on one\u2019s attitude toward these things. I think it does in a way, because it makes us aware of the long-range future. We\u2019re aware that it\u2019s taken about 4 billion years for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,34,385,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-evolution","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121887","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}