{"id":97201,"date":"2019-10-08T11:03:29","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T18:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/heres-how-we-could-feed-a-million-people-on-mars"},"modified":"2019-10-08T11:03:29","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T18:03:29","slug":"heres-how-we-could-feed-a-million-people-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/heres-how-we-could-feed-a-million-people-on-mars","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s How We Could Feed a Million People on Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/heres-how-we-could-feed-a-million-people-on-mars2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If we want to colonize Mars, we\u2019re going to need to figure out a way to feed ourselves there, and continuously <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1277538\/the-first-humans-sent-to-mars-will-need-to-3d-print-their-meals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sending food<\/a> to the Red Planet isn\u2019t a sustainable plan.<\/p>\n<p>But now, a team of researchers thinks it\u2019s figured out a way to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/how-feed-one-million-mars-colonists.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">produce enough food on Mars<\/a> to feed a million people \u2014 and they say their plan to make Martian colonists self-sufficient would take just a hundred years to implement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If we want to colonize Mars, we\u2019re going to need to figure out a way to feed ourselves there, and continuously sending food to the Red Planet isn\u2019t a sustainable plan. But now, a team of researchers thinks it\u2019s figured out a way to produce enough food on Mars to feed a million people \u2014 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,8,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-space","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97201","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=97201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}