{"id":149830,"date":"2022-11-09T17:26:14","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T23:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/what-if-humanity-is-among-the-first-spacefaring-civilizations"},"modified":"2022-11-09T17:26:14","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T23:26:14","slug":"what-if-humanity-is-among-the-first-spacefaring-civilizations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/what-if-humanity-is-among-the-first-spacefaring-civilizations","title":{"rendered":"What If Humanity Is Among The First Spacefaring Civilizations?"},"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\/uTrFAY3LUNw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Thank you to Squarespace for supporting PBS. Go to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.squarespace.com\/pbs\">https:\/\/www.squarespace.com\/pbs<\/a> for a free trial, and when you are ready to launch, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/Squarespace.com\/PBS\">Squarespace.com\/PBS<\/a> to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain.<\/p>\n<p>PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to: <a href=\"http:\/\/to.pbs.org\/DonateSPACE\">http:\/\/to.pbs.org\/DonateSPACE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sign Up on Patreon to get access to the Space Time Discord!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/pbsspacetime\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/pbsspacetime<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Half of the universe is filled with expansionist alien civilizations, and it\u2019s only a matter of time before they\u2019ll reach us. OK, that sounded a little sensationalist. But it\u2019s also the conclusion of a recent astrophysics paper. Let\u2019s see how they figure this, and whether we should take it seriously.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the Space Time Merch Store.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbsspacetime.com\/shop\">https:\/\/www.pbsspacetime.com\/shop<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sign up for the mailing list to get episode notifications and hear special announcements!<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/what-if-humanity-is-among-the-first-spacefaring-civilizations\">Continue reading \u201cWhat If Humanity Is Among The First Spacefaring Civilizations?\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you to Squarespace for supporting PBS. Go to https:\/\/www.squarespace.com\/pbs for a free trial, and when you are ready to launch, go to Squarespace.com\/PBS to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to: http:\/\/to.pbs.org\/DonateSPACE Sign Up on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,13,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-open-access","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149830","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=149830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}