{"id":28734,"date":"2016-08-08T03:02:16","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T10:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/how-do-we-colonize-mercury"},"modified":"2017-04-26T13:29:58","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T20:29:58","slug":"how-do-we-colonize-mercury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/how-do-we-colonize-mercury","title":{"rendered":"How do we colonize Mercury?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-do-we-colonize-mercury.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Humanity has long dreamed of establishing itself on other worlds, even before we started going into space. We\u2019ve talked about colonizing the Moon, Mars, and even establishing ourselves on exoplanets in distant star systems. But what about the other planets in our own backyard? When it comes to the solar system, there is a lot of potential real estate out there that we don\u2019t really consider.<\/p>\n<p>Well consider Mercury. While most people wouldn\u2019t suspect it, the closest planet to our sun is actually a potential candidate for settlement. Whereas it experiences extremes in temperature \u2013 gravitating between heat that could instantly cook a human being to cold that could flash-freeze flesh in seconds \u2013 it actually has potential as a starter colony.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/3tags.org\/article\/how-do-we-colonize-mercury.jpg\">http:\/\/3tags.org\/article\/how-do-we-colonize-mercury.jpg<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humanity has long dreamed of establishing itself on other worlds, even before we started going into space. We\u2019ve talked about colonizing the Moon, Mars, and even establishing ourselves on exoplanets in distant star systems. But what about the other planets in our own backyard? When it comes to the solar system, there is a lot [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28734","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28734"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56839,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28734\/revisions\/56839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}