{"id":31646,"date":"2016-11-03T10:46:30","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T17:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/tedx-talk-making-the-case-for-orbital-space-colonization-and-speaker-made-the-most-detailed-space-colony-simulator-ever"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:25:06","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:25:06","slug":"tedx-talk-making-the-case-for-orbital-space-colonization-and-speaker-made-the-most-detailed-space-colony-simulator-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/tedx-talk-making-the-case-for-orbital-space-colonization-and-speaker-made-the-most-detailed-space-colony-simulator-ever","title":{"rendered":"TedX talk making the case for orbital space colonization and speaker made the most detailed space colony simulator ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rQNisRKh-iU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Where will the best real estate outside of Earth be? In this fascinating talk, The building of the most accurate space colony simulator examines the evidence that \u201cwe can do better than Mars.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Joe Strout\u2019s programming career began at a young age, writing articles for \u201cNibble\u201d magazine in high school. Joe obtained a bachelors in psychology from the University of Miami and a masters in neuroscience from the University of California, San Diego, but couldn\u2019t resist the call of code and became a full-time software developer after graduate school. He now runs a consulting business, crafting unique software solutions to a wide range of problems. Joe and his two sons have been working on High Frontier for almost a year, and ran a successful Kickstarter campaign in November 2015.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/highfrontier.com\/\" target=\"blank\">High Frontier lets you design, build, and manage space settlements in a realistic simulation game.<\/a> Create an empire to span the solar system.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2016\/11\/tedx-talk-making-case-for-orbital-space.html\">http:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2016\/11\/tedx-talk-making-case-f...space.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where will the best real estate outside of Earth be? In this fascinating talk, The building of the most accurate space colony simulator examines the evidence that \u201cwe can do better than Mars.\u201d Joe Strout\u2019s programming career began at a young age, writing articles for \u201cNibble\u201d magazine in high school. Joe obtained a bachelors in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31646","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=31646"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38644,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31646\/revisions\/38644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}