{"id":246973,"date":"2026-11-09T22:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T04:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/scientists-simulated-what-earth-would-be-like-if-life-never-existed"},"modified":"2026-11-09T22:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T04:14:09","slug":"scientists-simulated-what-earth-would-be-like-if-life-never-existed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/scientists-simulated-what-earth-would-be-like-if-life-never-existed","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Simulated What Earth Would Be Like if Life Never Existed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We\u2019re here. We\u2019re <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-ran-100000-simulations-of-comets-striking-earth-the-results-are-a-surprise\">not entirely sure how we got here<\/a>, but we\u2019re here.<\/p>\n<p>But\u2026 what if we weren\u2019t here?<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the question scientists posed in a new study, simulating an alternative vision of Earth where life, uh, never found a way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re here. We\u2019re not entirely sure how we got here, but we\u2019re here. But\u2026 what if we weren\u2019t here? That\u2019s the question scientists posed in a new study, simulating an alternative vision of Earth where life, uh, never found a way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246973","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}