{"id":27125,"date":"2016-06-23T12:46:59","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T19:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/interstellar-defense-network-might-avert-real-life-independence-day"},"modified":"2017-06-04T19:55:06","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T02:55:06","slug":"interstellar-defense-network-might-avert-real-life-independence-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/interstellar-defense-network-might-avert-real-life-independence-day","title":{"rendered":"Interstellar Defense Network Might Avert Real-Life \u2018Independence Day\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/interstellar-defense-network-might-avert-real-life-independence-day.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The new \u201cIndependence Day\u201d is likely to be a popcorn-chomper, but it does provide us with some serious food for thought. We need to take a page from our former secretary of defense\u2019s playbook and start thinking about such \u2018known-unknowns.\u2019 Eg., we need to take the development of interstellar propulsion much more seriously for a whole host of reasons.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>As debris from an exploded mothership burned through Earth\u2019s atmosphere, many audiences likely left the 1996 film \u201cIndependence Day\u201d wondering when the rest of this ugly, stinking group of fictional extraterrestrials would return for a sequel? The answer lies in \u201cResurgence,\u201d Roland Emmerich\u2019s new blockbuster about locust-like space aliens that appear hellbent on killing off earth-like civilizations.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/brucedorminey\/2016\/06\/23\/interstellar-defense-network-might-avert-real-life-independence-day\/#5a095cfe791a\">http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/brucedorminey\/2016\/06\/23\/interst...095cfe791a<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new \u201cIndependence Day\u201d is likely to be a popcorn-chomper, but it does provide us with some serious food for thought. We need to take a page from our former secretary of defense\u2019s playbook and start thinking about such \u2018known-unknowns.\u2019 Eg., we need to take the development of interstellar propulsion much more seriously for a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":380,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27125","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=27125"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67115,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27125\/revisions\/67115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}