{"id":27551,"date":"2016-07-06T13:46:46","date_gmt":"2016-07-06T20:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/no-humans-will-never-achieve-interstellar-travel"},"modified":"2017-06-04T19:54:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T02:54:00","slug":"no-humans-will-never-achieve-interstellar-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/no-humans-will-never-achieve-interstellar-travel","title":{"rendered":"No, Humans Will Never Achieve Interstellar Travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/no-humans-will-never-achieve-interstellar-travel.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Assumption upon assumption upon assumption\u2026<\/p>\n<p>With a side order of totally flawed logic, hold the mayo.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<em>This post originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quora.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Quora<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quora.com\/Will-humans-achieve-interstellar-travel\/answer\/Dan-Holliday\" target=\"_blank\">Will humans achieve interstellar travel?<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>NO. Never. Not ever, even 100 quadrillion years from now. Never. Clearly, what follows is just my highly speculative opinion. It seems to bother people. Some call it pessimistic. Some call it overly optimistic. Whatever. Just my thought.<\/p>\n<p>Should our species remain extant for the next thousand years \u2014meaning we don\u2019t kill ourselves with bio-engineered plagues, or Yellowstone doesn\u2019t erupt and kill us all, or a KT-like impact doesn\u2019t happen\u2014 we will eventually cease being \u201chuman\u201d in a few centuries.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/observer.com\/2016\/07\/no-humans-will-never-achieve-interstellar-travel\/\">http:\/\/observer.com\/2016\/07\/no-humans-will-never-achieve-interstellar-travel\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assumption upon assumption upon assumption\u2026 With a side order of totally flawed logic, hold the mayo. This post originally appeared on Quora: Will humans achieve interstellar travel? NO. Never. Not ever, even 100 quadrillion years from now. Never. Clearly, what follows is just my highly speculative opinion. It seems to bother people. Some call it [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27551","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27551"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67007,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27551\/revisions\/67007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}