{"id":197898,"date":"2024-10-18T11:24:13","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T16:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/nuking-a-huge-asteroid-could-save-earth-lab-experiment-suggests"},"modified":"2024-10-18T11:24:13","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T16:24:13","slug":"nuking-a-huge-asteroid-could-save-earth-lab-experiment-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/nuking-a-huge-asteroid-could-save-earth-lab-experiment-suggests","title":{"rendered":"Nuking a Huge Asteroid could Save Earth, Lab Experiment Suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nuking-a-huge-asteroid-could-save-earth-lab-experiment-suggests2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Humanity could use a nuclear bomb to deflect a massive, life-threatening asteroid hurtling towards Earth in the future, according to scientists who tested the theory in the laboratory by blasting X-rays at a marble-sized \u2018mock asteroid\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humanity could use a nuclear bomb to deflect a massive, life-threatening asteroid hurtling towards Earth in the future, according to scientists who tested the theory in the laboratory by blasting X-rays at a marble-sized \u2018mock asteroid\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197898","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}