{"id":34624,"date":"2017-02-16T18:26:09","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T02:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/the-uae-is-looking-to-expand"},"modified":"2017-04-24T18:50:56","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T01:50:56","slug":"the-uae-is-looking-to-expand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/the-uae-is-looking-to-expand","title":{"rendered":"The UAE is looking to expand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-uae-is-looking-to-expand.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The United Arab Emirates is looking to expand \u2014 and wants to do so <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HopeMarsMission\">on Mars.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over the past few decades, oil and gas revenue has helped the UAE develop at a breakneck pace. It\u2019s glistening megacity Dubai is now home to the world\u2019s tallest building and countless other accolades, while just last year there were new plans announced to build a completely new \u201ccity of happiness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.emiratesmarsmission.ae\/\" target=\"_blank\">The UAE\u2019s latest venture<\/a> may set new heights in terms of ambition, however. On Tuesday, at the sidelines of the World Government Summit in Dubai, the UAE announced that it was planning to build the first city on Mars by 2117. According to CNBC, UAE engineers presented a concept city at the event about the size of Chicago for guests to explore.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.torontosun.com\/2017\/02\/16\/the-uae-is-looking-to-expand---with-a-city-on-mars\">http:\/\/www.torontosun.com\/2017\/02\/16\/the-uae-is-looking-to-e...ty-on-mars<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Arab Emirates is looking to expand \u2014 and wants to do so on Mars. Over the past few decades, oil and gas revenue has helped the UAE develop at a breakneck pace. It\u2019s glistening megacity Dubai is now home to the world\u2019s tallest building and countless other accolades, while just last year there [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34624","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\/384"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34624"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48836,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34624\/revisions\/48836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}