{"id":170206,"date":"2023-08-22T11:26:09","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T16:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/astronomers-hopeful-of-receiving-an-alien-reply-today-after-beaming-message-out-into-space-40-years-ago"},"modified":"2023-08-22T11:26:09","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T16:26:09","slug":"astronomers-hopeful-of-receiving-an-alien-reply-today-after-beaming-message-out-into-space-40-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/astronomers-hopeful-of-receiving-an-alien-reply-today-after-beaming-message-out-into-space-40-years-ago","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers hopeful of receiving an alien reply today after beaming message out into space 40 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-hopeful-of-receiving-an-alien-reply-today-after-beaming-message-out-into-space-40-years-ago.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why didn\u2019t they send pictures instead of a kid\u2019s drawings? I would be embarrassed to send those to anyone to explain the origin of our species.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Narusawa, 58, believes intelligent life lingers somewhere in the universe, and it\u2019s possible a planet in Altair\u2019s solar system could be harboring intelligent extraterrestrial life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAltair may have a planet whose environment can sustain life,\u201d he told the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>An exoplanet is any planet outside our solar system orbiting a star \u2014 though there are free-floating exoplanets called \u201crogue planets\u201d that are untethered in space, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/exoplanets.nasa.gov\/what-is-an-exoplanet\/overview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NASA<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why didn\u2019t they send pictures instead of a kid\u2019s drawings? I would be embarrassed to send those to anyone to explain the origin of our species. Narusawa, 58, believes intelligent life lingers somewhere in the universe, and it\u2019s possible a planet in Altair\u2019s solar system could be harboring intelligent extraterrestrial life. \u201cAltair may have a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170206","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\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}