{"id":166403,"date":"2023-06-25T14:41:31","date_gmt":"2023-06-25T19:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/can-humans-survive-long-term-in-deep-space-maybe"},"modified":"2023-06-25T14:41:31","modified_gmt":"2023-06-25T19:41:31","slug":"can-humans-survive-long-term-in-deep-space-maybe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/can-humans-survive-long-term-in-deep-space-maybe","title":{"rendered":"Can Humans Survive Long-Term in Deep Space? Maybe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/can-humans-survive-long-term-in-deep-space-maybe2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To survive long-term in deep space? The answer is a lukewarm maybe, according to a new theory that outlines the intricate challenges of maintaining gravity and oxygen, securing water, cultivating food, and managing waste while being distant from Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Dubbed the Pancosmorio theory \u2013 a word coined to mean \u201call world limit\u201d \u2013 it was described in a paper published in <em>Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor humans to sustain themselves and all of their technology, infrastructure, and society in space, they need a self-restoring, Earth-like, natural ecosystem to back them up,\u201d said co-author Morgan Irons, a doctoral student conducting research with Johannes Lehmann, professor in the School of Integrative Plant Science at <a href=https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/cornell-university\/>Cornell University<\/a>. Her work focuses on soil organic carbon persistence under Earth\u2019s gravity and varying gravity conditions. \u201cWithout these kinds of systems, the mission fails.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To survive long-term in deep space? The answer is a lukewarm maybe, according to a new theory that outlines the intricate challenges of maintaining gravity and oxygen, securing water, cultivating food, and managing waste while being distant from Earth. Dubbed the Pancosmorio theory \u2013 a word coined to mean \u201call world limit\u201d \u2013 it was [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166403","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=166403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}