{"id":122576,"date":"2021-05-14T06:25:19","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T13:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/episode-50-bioengineering-our-human-species-to-reach-the-stars"},"modified":"2021-05-14T06:25:19","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T13:25:19","slug":"episode-50-bioengineering-our-human-species-to-reach-the-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/episode-50-bioengineering-our-human-species-to-reach-the-stars","title":{"rendered":"Episode 50 \u2014 Bioengineering Our Human Species To Reach The Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"420\" height=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/player-v2\/?i=xngxu-103797e&square=1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Great new episode with renowned geneticist Christopher Mason who talks about his book on how we will need to bioengineer our own species in order to expand beyond our solar system.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Geneticist Christopher Mason chats about his new book, \u201cThe Next 500 Years: Engineering Life to Reach New Worlds\u201d from MIT Press. We discuss both the nuts and bolts and the philosophy driving our expansion offworld. Mason\u2019s goal is to preserve our species by expanding to an Earth 2.0 in order to avoid our star\u2019s own Red Giant endgame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great new episode with renowned geneticist Christopher Mason who talks about his book on how we will need to bioengineer our own species in order to expand beyond our solar system. Geneticist Christopher Mason chats about his new book, \u201cThe Next 500 Years: Engineering Life to Reach New Worlds\u201d from MIT Press. We discuss both [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":380,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,412,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-genetics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122576","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\/380"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}