{"id":15573,"date":"2015-07-20T17:26:04","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T00:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=15573"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:52:27","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:52:27","slug":"stephen-hawking-announces-100-million-hunt-for-alien-life-rachel-feltman-the-washington-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/stephen-hawking-announces-100-million-hunt-for-alien-life-rachel-feltman-the-washington-post","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Hawking announces $100 million hunt for alien life \u2014 Rachel Feltman The Washington Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>On Monday, famed physicist Stephen Hawking and Russian tycoon Yuri Milner held a news conference in London to announce their new project: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/search-for-extraterrestrial-intelligence-gets-a-100-million-boost-1.18016?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureNews\">injecting $100 million and a whole lot of brain power<\/a> into the search for intelligent extraterrestrial life, an endeavor they\u2019re calling Breakthrough Listen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe that life arose spontaneously on Earth,\u201d Hawking said at Monday\u2019s news conference, \u201cSo in an infinite universe, there must be other occurrences of life.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/speaking-of-science\/wp\/2015\/07\/20\/stephen-hawking-announces-100-million-hunt-for-alien-life\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, famed physicist Stephen Hawking and Russian tycoon Yuri Milner held a news conference in London to announce their new project: injecting $100 million and a whole lot of brain power into the search for intelligent extraterrestrial life, an endeavor they\u2019re calling Breakthrough Listen. \u201cWe believe that life arose spontaneously on Earth,\u201d Hawking said [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15573","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15573"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64559,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15573\/revisions\/64559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}