{"id":168740,"date":"2023-07-31T12:27:54","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T17:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/how-humans-will-become-a-multi-planetary-species"},"modified":"2023-07-31T12:27:54","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T17:27:54","slug":"how-humans-will-become-a-multi-planetary-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/how-humans-will-become-a-multi-planetary-species","title":{"rendered":"How Humans Will Become a Multi-Planetary Species"},"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\/H7Uyfqi_TE8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Rothschild calls this <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/lynn_rothschild_the_living_tech_we_need_to_support_human_life_on_other_planets\" target=\"_blank\" data-t=\"{'n':'destination','t':13,'b':1,'c.t':7}\" tabindex=\"0\" hasenterkeydown=\"1\">\u201cliving tech,\u201d<\/a> which starts with the power of the cell. Microscopic organisms will produce silk, wool, latex, silica, and other materials. We\u2019ll send digital information to biofactories on Mars through DNA sequences. We\u2019ll generate and store power using living organisms. <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/lynn_rothschild_the_living_tech_we_need_to_support_human_life_on_other_planets\" target=\"_blank\" data-t=\"{'n':'destination','t':13,'b':1,'c.t':7}\" tabindex=\"0\" hasenterkeydown=\"1\">Rothschild said<\/a> one of her students incorporated silver atoms into plant DNA to make an electrical wire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce you think of life as technology,\u201d Rothschild said, \u201cyou\u2019ve got the solution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Humans have many practical reasons to become multi-planetary. But the mission shouldn\u2019t represent merely a life insurance policy for the species. We\u2019re still explorers and visionaries, so let\u2019s harness that ambition for an aspirational purpose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rothschild calls this \u201cliving tech,\u201d which starts with the power of the cell. Microscopic organisms will produce silk, wool, latex, silica, and other materials. We\u2019ll send digital information to biofactories on Mars through DNA sequences. We\u2019ll generate and store power using living organisms. Rothschild said one of her students incorporated silver atoms into plant DNA [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168740","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}