{"id":81971,"date":"2018-08-22T10:22:41","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T17:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/what-does-a-city-of-one-million-people-on-mars-look-like"},"modified":"2018-08-22T10:22:41","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T17:22:41","slug":"what-does-a-city-of-one-million-people-on-mars-look-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/what-does-a-city-of-one-million-people-on-mars-look-like","title":{"rendered":"What does a city of one million people on Mars look like?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-does-a-city-of-one-million-people-on-mars-look-like.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An urban utopia on Mars might be closer than you think.<\/p>\n<p>For the past year, creative professionals, students, space geeks\u2014even families\u2014have been creating their visions for a metropolis on the fourth planet from the sun. The final winners of the<b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hpmarshomeplanet.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">HP Mars Home Planet<\/a><\/b> challenge were announced today by HP and unveiled in a VR experience at <a href=\"https:\/\/s2018.siggraph.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>SIGGRAPH 2018<\/b><\/a>, an annual computer graphics convention, in Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe amazing entries from the HP Mars Home Planet challenge give us a virtual window into what life on Mars could be like for a million members of humanity,\u201d says judge Dr. Darlene Lim, a geobiologist and principal investigator, NASA Biologic Analog Science. \u201cTechnological advancement is being met by a broad array of foundational space science and planetary research\u2014a confluence that will optimistically serve to accelerate our path toward human exploration and settlement of Mars.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/garage.ext.hp.com\/us\/en\/innovation\/innovation-hp-mars-home-planet-challenge-renderings.html?linkId=100000003292086\">https:\/\/garage.ext.hp.com\/us\/en\/innovation\/innovation-hp-mar...0003292086<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An urban utopia on Mars might be closer than you think. For the past year, creative professionals, students, space geeks\u2014even families\u2014have been creating their visions for a metropolis on the fourth planet from the sun. The final winners of the HP Mars Home Planet challenge were announced today by HP and unveiled in a VR [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,1523,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-computing","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81971","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=81971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}