{"id":12649,"date":"2014-12-14T09:00:11","date_gmt":"2014-12-14T17:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=12649"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:09:14","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:09:14","slug":"elon-musk-is-right-colonizing-the-solar-system-is-humankinds-insurance-policy-against-extinction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/elon-musk-is-right-colonizing-the-solar-system-is-humankinds-insurance-policy-against-extinction","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Is Right: Colonizing the Solar System Is Humankind\u2019s Insurance Policy Against Extinction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Written By: <a title=\"Posts by Jason Dorrier\" href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/author\/jdorrier\/\" rel=\"author\">Jason Dorrier<\/a> \u2014 Singularity Hub<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Why blow billions of dollars on space exploration when billions of people are living in poverty here on Earth?<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ve likely heard the justifications. The space program brings us useful innovations and inventions. Space exploration delivers perspective, inspiration, and understanding. Because it\u2019s the final frontier. Because it\u2019s there.<\/p>\n<p>What you haven\u2019t heard is anything to inspire a sense of urgency. Indeed, NASA\u2019s struggle to defend its existence and funding testifies to how weak these justifications sound to a public that cares less about space than seemingly more pressing needs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2014\/10\/05\/elon-musk-is-right-colonizing-the-solar-system-is-humankinds-insurance-policy-against-extinction\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written By: Jason Dorrier \u2014 Singularity Hub Why blow billions of dollars on space exploration when billions of people are living in poverty here on Earth? You\u2019ve likely heard the justifications. The space program brings us useful innovations and inventions. Space exploration delivers perspective, inspiration, and understanding. Because it\u2019s the final frontier. Because it\u2019s there. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,37,8,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-existential-risks","category-human-trajectories","category-space","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12649","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=12649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46721,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12649\/revisions\/46721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}