{"id":26279,"date":"2016-05-31T18:46:36","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T01:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/5-reasons-to-leave-the-solar-system"},"modified":"2017-06-04T19:58:26","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T02:58:26","slug":"5-reasons-to-leave-the-solar-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/5-reasons-to-leave-the-solar-system","title":{"rendered":"5 Reasons To Leave The Solar System?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/5-reasons-to-leave-the-solar-system.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The only real reason to leave the solar system is arguably for science and exploration. But to actually make our interstellar dreams a reality, we also need to get serious about interstellar propulsion with solid funding and a willingness to pursue any credible idea to its logical conclusion.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Aside from your candidate losing the election, what other reasons would you have for not only leaving Earth \u2014 but the solar system itself? Here are five possible drivers to escape the surly bonds of our own heliopause.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2014 To search for mineral riches<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This one has always spurred humanity and is sparking new interest in expanding beyond low-earth orbit (LEO) and ultimately into the main asteroid belt, for the pursuit of metal alloys or water and volatiles.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/brucedorminey\/2016\/05\/31\/5-reasons-to-leave-the-solar-system\/#68b8b5c414a0\">http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/brucedorminey\/2016\/05\/31\/5-reaso...b8b5c414a0<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The only real reason to leave the solar system is arguably for science and exploration. But to actually make our interstellar dreams a reality, we also need to get serious about interstellar propulsion with solid funding and a willingness to pursue any credible idea to its logical conclusion. Aside from your candidate losing the election, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":380,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26279","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\/380"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26279"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67394,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26279\/revisions\/67394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}