{"id":90527,"date":"2019-05-09T14:42:39","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T21:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/bill-nye-killer-asteroid-will-hit-earth-like-control-alt-delete-for-everything"},"modified":"2019-05-09T14:42:39","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T21:42:39","slug":"bill-nye-killer-asteroid-will-hit-earth-like-control-alt-delete-for-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/bill-nye-killer-asteroid-will-hit-earth-like-control-alt-delete-for-everything","title":{"rendered":"Bill Nye: Killer Asteroid Will Hit Earth \u2018Like Control-Alt-Delete For Everything\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bill-nye-killer-asteroid-will-hit-earth-like-control-alt-delete-for-everything2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A killer asteroid will hit the Earth, and it is not a matter of \u201cif\u201d but \u201cwhen,\u201d based on the discussions during last week\u2019s 2019 International Planetary Defense Conference.<\/p>\n<p>Bill Nye opened up about the threat of asteroid impacts and possible extinction, explaining that people need to be more aware of this threat. \u201cThe Earth is going to get hit with another asteroid,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/billnye.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Nye<\/a> said during the 2019 International Planetary Defense Conference. \u201cThe problem is, we don\u2019t know when.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nye, who is known as the TV \u201cScience Guy\u201d and is currently the CEO of the Planetary Society, continued by saying that even if an asteroid doesn\u2019t hit Earth within the next few decades, the threat is still there.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/bill-nye-killer-asteroid-will-hit-earth-control-alt-delete-everything-2790770\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A killer asteroid will hit the Earth, and it is not a matter of \u201cif\u201d but \u201cwhen,\u201d based on the discussions during last week\u2019s 2019 International Planetary Defense Conference. Bill Nye opened up about the threat of asteroid impacts and possible extinction, explaining that people need to be more aware of this threat. \u201cThe Earth [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroid-comet-impacts","category-existential-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90527","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}