{"id":124219,"date":"2021-06-24T18:22:17","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T01:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/to-understand-what-aliens-may-look-like-find-a-mirror-cambridge-biologist"},"modified":"2021-06-24T18:22:17","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T01:22:17","slug":"to-understand-what-aliens-may-look-like-find-a-mirror-cambridge-biologist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/to-understand-what-aliens-may-look-like-find-a-mirror-cambridge-biologist","title":{"rendered":"To understand what aliens may look like, find a mirror: Cambridge biologist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/to-understand-what-aliens-may-look-like-find-a-mirror-cambridge-biologist2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we were to find [aliens] with whom we could carry on a conversation, I think they would be remarkably like us.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>When talking about <a class href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/science\/62161-the-search-for-alien-extraterrestrial-life\">aliens<\/a>, zoologist <a class href=\"https:\/\/www.zoo.cam.ac.uk\/directory\/dr-arik-kershenbaum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Arik Kershenbaum<\/a> believes we need to adopt a new language.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201c<\/em>We need a language to speak about aliens, which is not the language of Hollywood,\u201d he tells <em>Inverse.<\/em> In fact, maybe we should scrap the term \u201calien\u201d altogether.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe we need a different term \u2014 if that\u2019s possible,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf we were to find [aliens] with whom we could carry on a conversation, I think they would be remarkably like us.\u201d When talking about aliens, zoologist Arik Kershenbaum believes we need to adopt a new language. \u201cWe need a language to speak about aliens, which is not the language of Hollywood,\u201d he tells Inverse. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":631,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124219","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\/631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}