{"id":88772,"date":"2019-03-19T01:42:14","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T08:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/5-killer-events-from-space-that-could-wipe-out-human-life-on-earth"},"modified":"2019-03-19T01:42:14","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T08:42:14","slug":"5-killer-events-from-space-that-could-wipe-out-human-life-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/5-killer-events-from-space-that-could-wipe-out-human-life-on-earth","title":{"rendered":"5 Killer Events From Space That Could Wipe Out Human Life On Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/5-killer-events-from-space-that-could-wipe-out-human-life-on-earth2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wiping out all life on Earth is hard, but causing mass extinctions is easy. Five major extinction events have occurred since the Cambrian explosion, each eradicating over 60% of terrestrial species. At least five extraterrestrial scenarios are capable of wiping humanity out.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Even if we don\u2019t destroy ourselves, we always have the Universe to contend with.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/startswithabang\/2019\/03\/18\/5-killer-events-from-space-that-could-wipe-out-human-life-on-earth\/#26eed9d453da\">https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/startswithabang\/2019\/03\/18\/5-ki...eed9d453da<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wiping out all life on Earth is hard, but causing mass extinctions is easy. Five major extinction events have occurred since the Cambrian explosion, each eradicating over 60% of terrestrial species. At least five extraterrestrial scenarios are capable of wiping humanity out. Even if we don\u2019t destroy ourselves, we always have the Universe to contend [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-existential-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88772","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}