{"id":136886,"date":"2022-03-15T12:23:40","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T19:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/martin-rees-interview-elon-musk-could-spawn-the-first-post-humans"},"modified":"2022-03-15T12:23:40","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T19:23:40","slug":"martin-rees-interview-elon-musk-could-spawn-the-first-post-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/martin-rees-interview-elon-musk-could-spawn-the-first-post-humans","title":{"rendered":"Martin Rees interview: Elon Musk could spawn the first post-humans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K660JFrgUrc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>AS ASTRONOMER Royal, you have to assume Martin Rees isn\u2019t in it for the money: \u00a3100 a year is the reward for advising the UK monarch on all matters astronomical.<\/p>\n<p>It is just one of many hats Rees has worn, though \u2013 including president of both the Royal Astronomical Society and the Royal Society and, since 2005, as an appointed member of the UK\u2019s House of Lords. His work as a government adviser and public face of science has come on the back of an equally distinguished career in cosmology stretching back more than half a century, encompassing seminal research on the nature of the big bang and black holes, extreme phenomena throughout the cosmos, the search for life elsewhere in the universe and, latterly, humanity\u2019s own fate within it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AS ASTRONOMER Royal, you have to assume Martin Rees isn\u2019t in it for the money: \u00a3100 a year is the reward for advising the UK monarch on all matters astronomical. It is just one of many hats Rees has worn, though \u2013 including president of both the Royal Astronomical Society and the Royal Society and, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,2019,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-elon-musk","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136886","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}