{"id":96920,"date":"2019-10-02T04:02:32","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T11:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/when-or-if-nasa-finds-life-on-mars-the-world-may-not-be-ready-for-the-discovery-the-agency-chief-says"},"modified":"2019-10-02T04:02:32","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T11:02:32","slug":"when-or-if-nasa-finds-life-on-mars-the-world-may-not-be-ready-for-the-discovery-the-agency-chief-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/when-or-if-nasa-finds-life-on-mars-the-world-may-not-be-ready-for-the-discovery-the-agency-chief-says","title":{"rendered":"When \u2014 or if \u2014 NASA finds life on Mars, the world may not be ready for the discovery, the agency chief says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/when-or-if-nasa-finds-life-on-mars-the-world-may-not-be-ready-for-the-discovery-the-agency-chief-says2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s next mission to Mars will be its most advanced yet. But if scientists discover there was once life \u2014 or there is life \u2014 on the Red Planet, will the public be able to handle such an extraterrestrial concept?<\/p>\n<p>NASA chief scientist Jim Green doesn\u2019t think so.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will be revolutionary,\u201d Green told<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2019\/09\/28\/nasa-chief-scientist-close-finding-alien-life-making-announcementsbut\/\" target=\"_blank\"> the Telegraph<\/a>. \u201cIt will start a whole new line of thinking. I don\u2019t think we\u2019re prepared for the results. We\u2019re not.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s next mission to Mars will be its most advanced yet. But if scientists discover there was once life \u2014 or there is life \u2014 on the Red Planet, will the public be able to handle such an extraterrestrial concept? NASA chief scientist Jim Green doesn\u2019t think so. \u201cIt will be revolutionary,\u201d Green told the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96920","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=96920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}