{"id":162030,"date":"2023-04-12T16:33:26","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T21:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/how-far-beyond-earth-could-humanity-expand"},"modified":"2023-04-12T16:33:26","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T21:33:26","slug":"how-far-beyond-earth-could-humanity-expand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/how-far-beyond-earth-could-humanity-expand","title":{"rendered":"How Far Beyond Earth Could Humanity Expand?"},"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\/R-eIUxwcQo4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Check Out Untold Earth on PBS Terra: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-BVHSUMAWR4&list=PLzkQfVIJun2J5q9CIXPAlL95FSb0tJul7&index=85\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-BVHSUMAWR4&amp;list=PLzkQfVIJun\u20267&amp;index=85<\/a><\/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>We humans have always been explorers. The great civilizations that have arisen across the world are owed to our restless ancestors. These days, there\u2019s not much of Earth left to explore. But if we look up, there\u2019s a whole universe out there waiting for us. Future generations may one day explore the cosmos and even settle entire other galaxies. But there is a hard limit to how much of the universe we can expand into. So, how big can humanity get?<\/p>\n<p>Episodes Referenced:<br \/> How Much Of The Universe Can Humanity Ever See?: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/eVoh27gJgME\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/eVoh27gJgME<\/a><br \/> Is Interstellar Travel Possible?: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/wdP_UDSsuro\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/wdP_UDSsuro<\/a>.<br \/> What If Humanity Is Among The First Spacefaring Civilizations?: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/uTrFAY3LUNw\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/uTrFAY3LUNw<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Edges of Our Universe by Toby Ord: <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2104.01191.pdf.\">https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2104.01191.pdf.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/how-far-beyond-earth-could-humanity-expand\">Continue reading \u201cHow Far Beyond Earth Could Humanity Expand?\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check Out Untold Earth on PBS Terra: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-BVHSUMAWR4&amp;list=PLzkQfVIJun\u20267&amp;index=85 PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to: http:\/\/to.pbs.org\/DonateSPACE Sign Up on Patreon to get access to the Space Time Discord! https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/pbsspacetime. We humans have always been explorers. The great civilizations that have arisen across the world are owed to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162030","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=162030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}