{"id":91734,"date":"2019-06-07T05:02:29","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T12:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/nasa-chief-warns-that-people-need-to-take-the-threat-of-a-meteor-crashing-into-earth-much-more-seriously"},"modified":"2019-06-07T05:02:29","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T12:02:29","slug":"nasa-chief-warns-that-people-need-to-take-the-threat-of-a-meteor-crashing-into-earth-much-more-seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/nasa-chief-warns-that-people-need-to-take-the-threat-of-a-meteor-crashing-into-earth-much-more-seriously","title":{"rendered":"NASA chief warns that people need to take the threat of a meteor crashing into Earth much more seriously"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-chief-warns-that-people-need-to-take-the-threat-of-a-meteor-crashing-into-earth-much-more-seriously.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s administrator warned that the threat of a meteor crashing into Earth is bigger than we might think.<\/p>\n<p>Jim Bridenstine told the International Academy of Astronautics\u2019 Planetary Defense Conference on Monday that \u201cthe reason it\u2019s important for NASA to take this seriously is something you call the \u2018giggle factor,\u2019\u201d or scientific theories that seem too ridiculous to be likely.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to make sure that people understand that this is not about Hollywood. It\u2019s not about movies. This is about ultimately protecting the only planet we know right now to host life, and that is the planet Earth,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/nasa-threat-of-meteor-crashing-into-earth-is-bigger-than-you-think-2019-5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s administrator warned that the threat of a meteor crashing into Earth is bigger than we might think. Jim Bridenstine told the International Academy of Astronautics\u2019 Planetary Defense Conference on Monday that \u201cthe reason it\u2019s important for NASA to take this seriously is something you call the \u2018giggle factor,\u2019\u201d or scientific theories that seem too [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91734","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\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}