{"id":34568,"date":"2017-02-14T23:22:41","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T07:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/the-united-arab-emirates-wants-to-build-a-city-on-mars"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:13:25","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:13:25","slug":"the-united-arab-emirates-wants-to-build-a-city-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/the-united-arab-emirates-wants-to-build-a-city-on-mars","title":{"rendered":"The United Arab Emirates wants to build a city on Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-united-arab-emirates-wants-to-build-a-city-on-mars.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A little more than 40 years ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/tags\/dubai\">Dubai<\/a> was a tiny pearl-fishing village lined with dirt roads. Now it\u2019s the largest and most futuristic city in the world, the jewel of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). From manmade, palm tree-shaped archipelagos to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/dubai-ordered-jetpacks-for-first-responders-because-course-it-did\">jetpack-wearing firefighters<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/eagle-films-flight-worlds-tallest-building-sets-record-video\">world\u2019s tallest building<\/a>, the city has a reputation for taking on insanely ambitious projects and executing them with swiftness and expertise. Now, the UAE has a vision to build an even crazier city\u2014on Mars.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, hot on the heels of the World Government Summit in Dubai, the vice president and prime minister of the UAE and Emir of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammad bin Rashid Al Maktoum, announced the country\u2019s goal of building a \u201cmini-city and community on Mars\u201d with international cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe aspire to great things, so my brother Mohammed bin Zayed [the first president of the UAE and crown prince of Abu Dhabi] and I today decided the UAE will join the global effort to send humans to Mars,\u201d Al Maktoum announced, as if going to Mars were as easy as deciding what to have for dinner.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/united-arab-emirates-wants-to-build-city-on-mars?src=SOC&amp;dom=fb\">http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/united-arab-emirates-wants-to-build-ci...amp;dom=fb<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little more than 40 years ago, Dubai was a tiny pearl-fishing village lined with dirt roads. Now it\u2019s the largest and most futuristic city in the world, the jewel of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). From manmade, palm tree-shaped archipelagos to jetpack-wearing firefighters and the world\u2019s tallest building, the city has a reputation for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34568","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=34568"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58718,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34568\/revisions\/58718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}