{"id":80976,"date":"2018-07-27T05:02:33","date_gmt":"2018-07-27T12:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/capture-an-asteroid-bring-it-back-to-earth"},"modified":"2018-07-27T05:02:33","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T12:02:33","slug":"capture-an-asteroid-bring-it-back-to-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/capture-an-asteroid-bring-it-back-to-earth","title":{"rendered":"Capture an asteroid, bring it back to Earth?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/capture-an-asteroid-bring-it-back-to-earth.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>BEIJING \u2014 Next time when your kids ask you to bring them a star from the sky, you don\u2019t have to shrug and walk away. Tell them to wait, instead.<\/p>\n<p>A group of Chinese scientists are mulling a bold idea to capture a small near-Earth asteroid, which might be a potential threat, and bring it back to Earth to exploit its resources.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSounds like science-fiction, but I believe it can be realized,\u201d said Li Mingtao, a researcher at the National Space Science Center under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/africa.chinadaily.com.cn\/a\/201807\/24\/WS5b568b56a31031a351e8fbbd.html\">http:\/\/africa.chinadaily.com.cn\/a\/201807\/24\/WS5b568b56a31031a351e8fbbd.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING \u2014 Next time when your kids ask you to bring them a star from the sky, you don\u2019t have to shrug and walk away. Tell them to wait, instead. A group of Chinese scientists are mulling a bold idea to capture a small near-Earth asteroid, which might be a potential threat, and bring it [\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-80976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80976","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=80976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}