{"id":157851,"date":"2023-02-12T20:23:22","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T02:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/lets-not-use-mars-as-a-backup-planet"},"modified":"2023-02-12T20:23:22","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T02:23:22","slug":"lets-not-use-mars-as-a-backup-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/lets-not-use-mars-as-a-backup-planet","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s not use Mars as a backup planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lets-not-use-mars-as-a-backup-planet2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stellar astronomer and TED Senior Fellow Lucianne Walkowicz works on NASA\u2019s Kepler mission, searching for places in the universe that could support life. So it\u2019s worth a listen when she asks us to think carefully about Mars. In this short talk, she suggests that we stop dreaming of Mars as a place that we\u2019ll eventually move to when we\u2019ve messed up Earth, and to start thinking of planetary exploration and preservation of the Earth as two sides of the same goal. As she says, \u201cThe more you look for planets like Earth, the more you appreciate our own planet.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stellar astronomer and TED Senior Fellow Lucianne Walkowicz works on NASA\u2019s Kepler mission, searching for places in the universe that could support life. So it\u2019s worth a listen when she asks us to think carefully about Mars. In this short talk, she suggests that we stop dreaming of Mars as a place that we\u2019ll eventually [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157851","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}