{"id":126119,"date":"2021-08-11T19:23:03","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T02:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/blob-of-slime-mold-blasts-off-into-space-for-extraordinary-iss-experiment"},"modified":"2021-08-11T19:23:03","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T02:23:03","slug":"blob-of-slime-mold-blasts-off-into-space-for-extraordinary-iss-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/blob-of-slime-mold-blasts-off-into-space-for-extraordinary-iss-experiment","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Blob\u2019 of Slime Mold Blasts Off Into Space For Extraordinary ISS Experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/blob-of-slime-mold-blasts-off-into-space-for-extraordinary-iss-experiment3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronauts aboard the International Space Station are set to welcome a most unusual guest, as \u201cthe Blob\u201d blasts off into orbit on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>An alien on its own planet, the Blob is an unclassifiable organism \u2013 neither fish nor fowl. Nor is it plant, animal, or fungus.<\/p>\n<p>As such, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Physarum_polycephalum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Physarum polycephalum<\/em><\/a> \u2013 a type of slime mold \u2013 has long fascinated scientists and will now be part of a unique experiment carried out simultaneously by astronauts hundreds of kilometers above the Earth and by hundreds of thousands of French school students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronauts aboard the International Space Station are set to welcome a most unusual guest, as \u201cthe Blob\u201d blasts off into orbit on Tuesday. An alien on its own planet, the Blob is an unclassifiable organism \u2013 neither fish nor fowl. Nor is it plant, animal, or fungus. As such, Physarum polycephalum \u2013 a type of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126119","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}