{"id":142474,"date":"2022-07-19T00:24:50","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T05:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/the-devastating-destruction-of-the-human-race-the-killing-star"},"modified":"2022-07-19T00:24:50","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T05:24:50","slug":"the-devastating-destruction-of-the-human-race-the-killing-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/the-devastating-destruction-of-the-human-race-the-killing-star","title":{"rendered":"The Devastating Destruction of the Human Race | The Killing Star"},"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\/yvMXkGwR-mo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So, I think I uncovered a treasure. The Killing Star by Charles Pellegrino and George Zebrowski was originally published 1995 and it paints a dark and seemingly plausible depiction of humanity\u2019s potential future. This book is about several things genetic engineering and cloning, it\u2019s about the destructive power of fanaticism, It\u2019s about the over confidence and hubris of humanity, and that gets really hammered home in this book with all it\u2019s references to the titanic, which has for a very long time been thought of as one of the greatest symbols of human hubris, it\u2019s about AI, and when it goes to far, it\u2019s about our over dependence on technology, it\u2019s about humanity\u2019s indefinite survival outside of earth, and most importantly, it\u2019s about the devastating annihilation of the vast majority of the human race.<\/p>\n<p>Join Dune Club!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DanikaXIX\/status\/1540394079069999106\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/DanikaXIX\/status\/1540394079069999106<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Music: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=63UR4xLiUNo\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=63UR4xLiUNo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Cover art: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artstation.com\/artwork\/L3YP2w\">https:\/\/www.artstation.com\/artwork\/L3YP2w<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>FOLLOW QUINN ON TWITTER: Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IDEASOFICE_FIRE\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/IDEASOFICE_FIRE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Three-Body Playlist: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLRXGGVBzHLUfIzEhovpQJ2ENiNvJoOD2A\">https:\/\/youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLRXGGVBzHLUfIzEhovpQJ2ENiNvJoOD2A<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/the-devastating-destruction-of-the-human-race-the-killing-star\">Continue reading \u201cThe Devastating Destruction of the Human Race | The Killing Star\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I think I uncovered a treasure. The Killing Star by Charles Pellegrino and George Zebrowski was originally published 1995 and it paints a dark and seemingly plausible depiction of humanity\u2019s potential future. This book is about several things genetic engineering and cloning, it\u2019s about the destructive power of fanaticism, It\u2019s about the over confidence [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,412,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142474","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}