{"id":123407,"date":"2021-06-04T16:08:53","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T23:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/how-going-to-mars-could-save-earth"},"modified":"2021-06-04T16:08:53","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T23:08:53","slug":"how-going-to-mars-could-save-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/how-going-to-mars-could-save-earth","title":{"rendered":"How Going to Mars Could Save Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-going-to-mars-could-save-earth.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Article I just wrote about how going to Mars is actually good for protecting life on Earth, too.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>People often lump going to Mars or the Moon into a this\/that fight when it comes to bettering the life of the Earth and its inhabitants. But, <em class=\"\">it\u2019s not that simple.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The technology we master in the pursuit of space colonization (starti n g at the Moon and Mars \/ space stations) will serve to advance that on Earth. The things we learn will help provide a guide for what to do on <em class=\"\">this<\/em> future planet, and <em class=\"\">not just life beyond it<\/em>. Sure, in-situ resource utilization\/production will generate rocket fuel on extraterrestrial bodies. But, things like the NASA Kilopower nuclear reactor can lay the groundwork for alternative energies deployed on Earth at scale. I imagine thorium reactors will follow suit while we still try to deploy fusion at a consumer scale and not just a research basis.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s just energy. Now picture 3D printing habitat development and how that can impact production of low-cost housing on Earth and construction projects that can have shapes previously thought impossible or too-high a cost<em class=\"\"> that are more efficient<\/em> and allow for artists to <em class=\"\">sculpt new buildings like a sculpture rather than a boring block<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article I just wrote about how going to Mars is actually good for protecting life on Earth, too. People often lump going to Mars or the Moon into a this\/that fight when it comes to bettering the life of the Earth and its inhabitants. But, it\u2019s not that simple. The technology we master in the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":382,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,873,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-nuclear-energy","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123407","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\/382"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}