{"id":79161,"date":"2018-05-29T09:42:31","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T16:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/jeff-bezos-we-will-have-to-leave-this-planet-and-its-going-to-make-this-planet-better"},"modified":"2018-05-29T09:42:31","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T16:42:31","slug":"jeff-bezos-we-will-have-to-leave-this-planet-and-its-going-to-make-this-planet-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/jeff-bezos-we-will-have-to-leave-this-planet-and-its-going-to-make-this-planet-better","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Bezos: \u2018We will have to leave this planet \u2026 and it\u2019s going to make this planet better\u2019"},"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\/eDS42C32xTU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>LOS ANGELES \u2013 Deep thinkers have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brainyquote.com\/quotes\/konstantin_tsiolkovsky_183177\">saying<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2017\/stephen-hawking-lays-plan-settling-space-moon-mars-stars\/\">generations<\/a> that we have to get off this rock and head for the stars, but the idea takes on a little more weight when the world\u2019s richest person says it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will have to leave this planet, and we\u2019re going to leave it, and it\u2019s going to make this planet better,\u201d Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon retailing giant and the Blue Origin space venture, told me here on Friday night during a fireside chat at the National Space Society\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/isdc2018.nss.org\/\">International Space Development Conference<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2018\/jeff-bezos-isdc-space-vision\/\">https:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2018\/jeff-bezos-isdc-space-vision\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2013 Deep thinkers have been saying for generations that we have to get off this rock and head for the stars, but the idea takes on a little more weight when the world\u2019s richest person says it. \u201cWe will have to leave this planet, and we\u2019re going to leave it, and it\u2019s going [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79161","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=79161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}