{"id":207654,"date":"2025-03-02T20:54:20","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T02:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/starseed-a-fireheart-company"},"modified":"2025-03-02T20:54:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T02:54:20","slug":"starseed-a-fireheart-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/starseed-a-fireheart-company","title":{"rendered":"Starseed a Fireheart Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/starseed-a-fireheart-company2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My short story has been published by White Cat Publications! It features the idea of deliberately kicking off life on other planets by seeding them with engineered microorganisms, potentially leading to new civilizations in the distant future! #sciencefiction<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>By Logan Thrasher Collins.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWait up Jimmy!\u201d Katrina called after her brother as he clambered up the snowy hill towards the launch facility. He turned back to her, cheeks pink and eyes bright. It was a cold clear night. Snowflakes drifted on the breeze, glowing against the light from the facility\u2019s bulbs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSorry Kat. Just excited.\u201d Jimmy held up the capsule containing the bacteria that he and Katrina had engineered using old lab equipment in their parents\u2019 garage after school. They had not yet started high school, so they had taught themselves the rudiments of the biological sciences through books and the internet. After finding the old rocket in the facility and hatching their plan, they had spent many late nights deciphering passages from journal articles and laboratory protocols. At last, they were ready to send their engineered bacteria into outer space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My short story has been published by White Cat Publications! It features the idea of deliberately kicking off life on other planets by seeding them with engineered microorganisms, potentially leading to new civilizations in the distant future! #sciencefiction By Logan Thrasher Collins. \u201cWait up Jimmy!\u201d Katrina called after her brother as he clambered up the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":636,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207654","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\/636"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}