{"id":79699,"date":"2018-06-18T09:22:21","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T16:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/to-start-a-new-life-at-proxima-centauri-this-is-how-many-people-we-need-to-send"},"modified":"2018-06-21T13:02:56","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T20:02:56","slug":"to-start-a-new-life-at-proxima-centauri-this-is-how-many-people-we-need-to-send","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/to-start-a-new-life-at-proxima-centauri-this-is-how-many-people-we-need-to-send","title":{"rendered":"To Start a New Life at Proxima Centauri, This Is How Many People We Need to Send"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/to-start-a-new-life-at-proxima-centauri-this-is-how-many-people-we-need-to-send.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Humanity has long dreamed about sending humans to other planets, even before crewed spaceflight became a reality. And with the discovery of thousands exoplanets in recent decades, particularly those that orbit within neighboring star systems (like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/130427\/habitable-terrestrial-exoplanet-confirmed-around-nearest-star\/\">Proxima b<\/a>), that dream seems closer than ever to becoming a reality.<\/p>\n<p>But of course, a lot of technical challenges need to be overcome before we can hope to mount such a mission.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, a lot of questions need to be answered. For example, what kind of ship should we send to Proxima b or other nearby exoplanets? And how many people would we need to place aboard that ship?<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/to-start-a-new-life-at-proxima-centauri-this-is-how-many-people-we-need-to-send-to-survive-the-journey?utm_source=ScienceAlert+-+Daily+Email+Updates&utm_campaign=4368beae4d-MAILCHIMP_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fe5632fb09-4368beae4d-365887529\">https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/to-start-a-new-life-at-proxima-...-365887529<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humanity has long dreamed about sending humans to other planets, even before crewed spaceflight became a reality. And with the discovery of thousands exoplanets in recent decades, particularly those that orbit within neighboring star systems (like Proxima b), that dream seems closer than ever to becoming a reality. But of course, a lot of technical [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79699","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=79699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79764,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79699\/revisions\/79764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}