{"id":12331,"date":"2014-09-14T09:00:10","date_gmt":"2014-09-14T16:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=12331"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:12:16","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:12:16","slug":"what-if-destiny-were-real-the-uks-cities-imagined-with-space-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/what-if-destiny-were-real-the-uks-cities-imagined-with-space-travel","title":{"rendered":"What if Destiny were real? The UK\u2019s cities imagined with space travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hereisthecity.com\/en-gb\/author\/adam_gell\/\">Adam Gell<\/a> \u2014 HITC<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><em>Destiny<\/em> has been in players\u2019 hands for the past few days now, and <a href=\"http:\/\/hereisthecity.com\/en-gb\/2014\/09\/12\/hitcs-first-impressions-of-destiny\/\" target=\"_self\">I\u2019ve also been doing my part to fight The Darkness this week too.<\/a> But, as the game uses our own galaxy as the setting to tell its story, complete with futuristic space travel and talk of a Golden Age brought by the arrival of The Traveller, Activision and Bungie have worked with the National Space Centre to see what the UK could look like in the future when space travel is real.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly in the images below, <em>Destiny<\/em> lets you travel to the futuristic imaginings of the Russian Cosmodrome, which is the real-world site of Earth\u2019s first and largest space facility, and where Sputnik 1 (the first artificial Earth satellite) was launched in 1957. In the game the site looks quite different from today\u2019s real-world counterpart, as humanity has gone through a Golden Age of space travel, and reached the brink of extinction with the arrival of The Darkness years later.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hereisthecity.com\/en-gb\/2014\/09\/12\/what-if-destiny-were-real-the-uks-cities-imagined-with-space-tra\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Gell \u2014 HITC Destiny has been in players\u2019 hands for the past few days now, and I\u2019ve also been doing my part to fight The Darkness this week too. But, as the game uses our own galaxy as the setting to tell its story, complete with futuristic space travel and talk of a Golden [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12331","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=12331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46881,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12331\/revisions\/46881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}