{"id":74002,"date":"2017-11-30T01:42:37","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T09:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/why-human-race-is-20-years-away-from-guaranteeing-its-immortality-physicist-brian-cox-on-space-colonies-and-mining-asteroids"},"modified":"2017-12-07T10:01:15","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T18:01:15","slug":"why-human-race-is-20-years-away-from-guaranteeing-its-immortality-physicist-brian-cox-on-space-colonies-and-mining-asteroids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/why-human-race-is-20-years-away-from-guaranteeing-its-immortality-physicist-brian-cox-on-space-colonies-and-mining-asteroids","title":{"rendered":"Why human race is 20 years away from guaranteeing its immortality \u2013 physicist Brian Cox on space colonies and mining asteroids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-human-race-is-20-years-away-from-guaranteeing-its-immortality-physicist-brian-cox-on-space-colonies-and-mining-asteroids.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re at a stage now where the next 10 or 20 years are the time we become a spacefaring civilisation,\u201d he says. \u201cFrom then on, our future is guaranteed as a civilisation. The moment we get to the moon and Mars and start to exploit the resources in the solar system is the moment we become essentially immortal as a civilisation. Because we won\u2019t just be confined to one planet that we can damage any more. Now is the time we do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Professor believes we will become a spacefaring civilisation in the next 10 or 20 years, and thereby guarantee our future forever, as long as we don\u2019t do anything stupid like \u2018having a war in the Pacific\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/article\/2121943\/why-human-race-20-years-away-guaranteeing-its-immortality-physicist-brian\">http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/article\/2121943\/why-human-race...cist-brian<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe\u2019re at a stage now where the next 10 or 20 years are the time we become a spacefaring civilisation,\u201d he says. \u201cFrom then on, our future is guaranteed as a civilisation. The moment we get to the moon and Mars and start to exploit the resources in the solar system is the moment we [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74002","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74054,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74002\/revisions\/74054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}