{"id":141003,"date":"2022-06-23T08:02:25","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T13:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/interstellar-travel-could-be-possible-even-without-spaceships-scientist-says"},"modified":"2022-06-23T08:02:25","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T13:02:25","slug":"interstellar-travel-could-be-possible-even-without-spaceships-scientist-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/interstellar-travel-could-be-possible-even-without-spaceships-scientist-says","title":{"rendered":"Interstellar Travel Could Be Possible Even Without Spaceships, Scientist Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/interstellar-travel-could-be-possible-even-without-spaceships-scientist-says2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In about 5 billion years, the Sun will leave the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Main_sequence\">main sequence<\/a> and become a red giant. It\u2019ll expand and transform into a glowering, malevolent ball and consume and destroy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/mercury\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Mercury\">Mercury<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/venus\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Venus\">Venus<\/a>, Earth, and probably <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/mars\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Mars\">Mars<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Can humanity survive the Sun\u2019s red giant phase? Extraterrestrial Civilizations (ETCs) may have already faced this existential threat.<\/p>\n<p>Could they have survived it by migrating to another star system without the use of spaceships?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In about 5 billion years, the Sun will leave the main sequence and become a red giant. It\u2019ll expand and transform into a glowering, malevolent ball and consume and destroy Mercury, Venus, Earth, and probably Mars. Can humanity survive the Sun\u2019s red giant phase? Extraterrestrial Civilizations (ETCs) may have already faced this existential threat. Could [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-existential-risks","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141003","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}