{"id":90380,"date":"2019-05-07T11:22:25","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T18:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/heres-why-scientists-think-discovering-aliens-is-inevitable-and-imminent"},"modified":"2019-05-07T11:22:25","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T18:22:25","slug":"heres-why-scientists-think-discovering-aliens-is-inevitable-and-imminent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/heres-why-scientists-think-discovering-aliens-is-inevitable-and-imminent","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s why scientists think discovering aliens is inevitable and imminent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/heres-why-scientists-think-discovering-aliens-is-inevitable-and-imminent.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amino acids, just like those that make up every protein in our bodies, have been found in the tails of comets.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Because, following a string of remarkable discoveries over the past two decades, the idea of alien life is not as far-fetched as it used to seem.<\/p>\n<p>Discovery now seems inevitable and possibly imminent.<\/p>\n<p>While life is a special kind of complex chemistry, the elements involved are nothing special: carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and so on are among the most abundant elements in the universe. Complex organic chemistry is surprisingly common.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/heres-why-scientists-think-discovering-aliens-is-imminent-2019-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amino acids, just like those that make up every protein in our bodies, have been found in the tails of comets. Because, following a string of remarkable discoveries over the past two decades, the idea of alien life is not as far-fetched as it used to seem. Discovery now seems inevitable and possibly imminent. While [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90380","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\/466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}