{"id":30667,"date":"2016-10-01T11:48:12","date_gmt":"2016-10-01T18:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/how-would-sex-work-in-space"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:24:35","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:24:35","slug":"how-would-sex-work-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/how-would-sex-work-in-space","title":{"rendered":"How would sex work in space?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-would-sex-work-in-space.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk doesn\u2019t want to simply <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/9\/27\/13058990\/mars-mission-spaceship-announced-elon-musk-spacex\"><em>send<\/em><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/9\/27\/13058990\/mars-mission-spaceship-announced-elon-musk-spacex\"> humans to Mars<\/a>. The SpaceX CEO has bigger ambitions. He wants us to be an \u201cinterplanetary species,\u201d which means creating a self-sustaining civilization on Mars, which means living and dying on Mars \u2014 which at some point might mean sex and pregnancy on Mars.<\/p>\n<p>So how would that work?<\/p>\n<p>Given that Musk hasn\u2019t figured out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/9\/28\/13087110\/spacex-elon-musk-mars-plan-habitat-radiation-funding-questions\">how to keep people alive<\/a> on the trip to the Red Planet, it\u2019s unlikely he has details on how people will make more people once they\u2019re there. We don\u2019t have any data on how human bodies will work on Mars specifically, but we have enough information to know that sex in space could be a real hassle.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/10\/1\/13123042\/space-x-elon-musk-sex-space-mars-mission\">http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/10\/1\/13123042\/space-x-elon-musk...rs-mission<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk doesn\u2019t want to simply send humans to Mars. The SpaceX CEO has bigger ambitions. He wants us to be an \u201cinterplanetary species,\u201d which means creating a self-sustaining civilization on Mars, which means living and dying on Mars \u2014 which at some point might mean sex and pregnancy on Mars. So how would that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1901,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-sex","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30667","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30667"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60212,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30667\/revisions\/60212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}