{"id":153879,"date":"2022-12-30T06:24:51","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T12:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/monkey-experiment-reveals-a-brain-switch-that-could-be-useful-for-space-travel"},"modified":"2022-12-30T06:24:51","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T12:24:51","slug":"monkey-experiment-reveals-a-brain-switch-that-could-be-useful-for-space-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/monkey-experiment-reveals-a-brain-switch-that-could-be-useful-for-space-travel","title":{"rendered":"Monkey Experiment Reveals a Brain Switch That Could Be Useful For Space Travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/monkey-experiment-reveals-a-brain-switch-that-could-be-useful-for-space-travel2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For humans to ever venture out among the stars, we will have to solve some hefty logistical problems.<\/p>\n<p>Not the least of these is the travel time involved. Space is so large, and human technology so limited, that the time it would take to travel to another star presents a significant barrier.<\/p>\n<p>The Voyager 1 probe, for instance, would take <a href=\"https:\/\/imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov\/features\/cosmic\/nearest_star_info.html\">73,000 years<\/a> to reach Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to the Sun, at its current speed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For humans to ever venture out among the stars, we will have to solve some hefty logistical problems. Not the least of these is the travel time involved. Space is so large, and human technology so limited, that the time it would take to travel to another star presents a significant barrier. The Voyager 1 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153879","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}