{"id":97577,"date":"2019-10-18T09:02:42","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T16:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/as-coachella-raged-the-l-a-tech-world-made-plans-to-live-on-mars"},"modified":"2019-10-18T09:02:42","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T16:02:42","slug":"as-coachella-raged-the-l-a-tech-world-made-plans-to-live-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/as-coachella-raged-the-l-a-tech-world-made-plans-to-live-on-mars","title":{"rendered":"As Coachella raged, the L.A. tech world made plans to live on Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/as-coachella-raged-the-l-a-tech-world-made-plans-to-live-on-mars2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The only in-flight beverages on the 11-seat private jet were bottled water and a genetically modified bacterial slurry designed to prevent the worst effects of hangovers.<\/p>\n<p>A handful of passengers on the short evening flight from Hawthorne to the edge of the Mojave \u2014 venture capitalists, a man with a mushroom-based manufacturing company and this reporter \u2014 downed the mixture. The pilot, along with two senior SpaceX engineers, politely declined.<\/p>\n<p>At the Apple Valley Airport, a helicopter waited to take us beyond a far ridge, farther from civilization. Miles from paved roads were two tents, a ring of shipping containers and an \u201cH\u201d painted on the dirt marking a makeshift helipad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The only in-flight beverages on the 11-seat private jet were bottled water and a genetically modified bacterial slurry designed to prevent the worst effects of hangovers. A handful of passengers on the short evening flight from Hawthorne to the edge of the Mojave \u2014 venture capitalists, a man with a mushroom-based manufacturing company and this [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412,8,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics","category-space","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97577","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}