{"id":83184,"date":"2018-10-01T08:23:26","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T15:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/scientists-think-theyve-finally-found-the-crushing-limits-of-gravity-humans-could-survive"},"modified":"2018-10-01T08:23:26","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T15:23:26","slug":"scientists-think-theyve-finally-found-the-crushing-limits-of-gravity-humans-could-survive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/scientists-think-theyve-finally-found-the-crushing-limits-of-gravity-humans-could-survive","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Think They\u2019ve Finally Found The Crushing Limits of Gravity Humans Could Survive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-think-theyve-finally-found-the-crushing-limits-of-gravity-humans-could-survive.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They don\u2019t call <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Haf%C3%BE%C3%B3r_J%C3%BAl%C3%ADus_Bj%C3%B6rnsson\">Haf\u00fe\u00f3r J\u00fal\u00edus Bj\u00f6rnsson<\/a> \u2018The Mountain\u2019 for nothing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/hafthor-bjornsson-breaks-viking-strength-record-2015-2\/?r=AU&IR=T\">In 2015<\/a>, the strong man and Game of Thrones actor broke a millennium-old record by taking \u2013 or more accurately, staggering \u2013 five steps with a 650 kilogram (1,430 pound) log on his back.<\/p>\n<p>To most of us, this was simply an extraordinary example of heroic strength. To scientists, this feat marked a crushing limit to the gravitational pull any mortal could ever hope to endure, setting a boundary on the mass of planets we might expect to colonise.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/limits-gravity-human-body-endurance-exoplanets\">https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/limits-gravity-human-body-endurance-exoplanets<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They don\u2019t call Haf\u00fe\u00f3r J\u00fal\u00edus Bj\u00f6rnsson \u2018The Mountain\u2019 for nothing. In 2015, the strong man and Game of Thrones actor broke a millennium-old record by taking \u2013 or more accurately, staggering \u2013 five steps with a 650 kilogram (1,430 pound) log on his back. To most of us, this was simply an extraordinary example of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83184","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}