{"id":212683,"date":"2017-03-02T11:44:37","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T16:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/uncategorized\/what-is-the-fascination-with-space-exploration-grand-valley-lanthorn.php"},"modified":"2017-03-02T11:44:37","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T16:44:37","slug":"what-is-the-fascination-with-space-exploration-grand-valley-lanthorn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/space-exploration\/what-is-the-fascination-with-space-exploration-grand-valley-lanthorn.php","title":{"rendered":"What is the fascination with space exploration? &#8211; Grand Valley Lanthorn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>    By Jake    Keeley | 3\/1\/17 11:23pm  <\/p>\n<p>    There are many things that I do not understand, but I do not    think I am alone when I say that I do not understand the    fascination with space. Im sure if we surveyed elementary    aged children, one of the most frequent occurring desired    occupations would be an astronaut. Aside from a police officer,    or a fireman, kids love astronauts. And I cant totally blame    them, as I too enjoy spacecrafts. In fact I have designed and    engineered over 100 spacecrafts using LEGOs alone.  <\/p>\n<p>    And certainly I can remember emulating life without gravity as    I was taking big, moon-bouncing strides just yesterday.    However, I cant help but ask whats next? There are so many    unanswered questions that even if we got an answer, Im not    sure we would know what to do with it. Is there life other than    us? If the answer is yes, how does that change what we do on a    day-to-day basis? If the answer is somehow figured out to be a    firm no, does that change our approach either?  <\/p>\n<p>    NASA couldnt care less about what we think because they are    moving. After a long hiatus of being in the news, NASA has    found themselves in the headlines twice in the past week. Not    only did they recently find seven potentially hospitable    planets, the movie Hidden Figures, depicting the story of a    team of African American women mathematicians who played a    major role in the early US space program, was nominated for the    best picture award.  <\/p>\n<p>    Best picture is certainly no small feat, but seven planets is    extraordinary. Not only was the finding monumental, the naming    was revolutionary as well.  <\/p>\n<p>    TRAPPIST-1 finally serves as a nod to rapper Future who not    only has a mixtape called Astronaut Status, but has also    dedicated an entire project to the one time ninth planet from    our sun, only to be reclassified as a dwarf planet, Pluto.    No, NASA cant convince me that TRAPPIST stands for The    Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope, because    no one in their right mind would believe that.  <\/p>\n<p>    After spending what felt like too long roving the planet Mars    with nothing really to show for it, it seems like TRAPPIST-1    presents a real opportunity with some genuine traction. NASA    suggests that three of the seven planets are within the    goldilocks zone, where the temperature is neither too hot to    boil off water, or too cold to freeze it.  <\/p>\n<p>    However, there is still much to be learned about any of the    planets, and it is certainly much too soon to speculate on the    prospect of life. The best thing about it is that it is    essentially a win-win scenario, because even if we determine    that the planets are uninhabitable, we have an entirely new set    of planets whose aliens can potentially invade Earth in the    next sci-fi thriller.  <\/p>\n<p>    We can even derive an entirely new species based on the    environment TRAPPIST-1 presents. Just think of the    possibilities. I already have, and it basically culminates in a    reboot of Predator, because unfortunately all Hollywood can    do these days are remakes.  <\/p>\n<p>    In leaking Futures new mixtape, NASA has again sparked our    interest in the unknown. Whether it stems from our longstanding    love affair with films such as E.T., Star Trek, Star Wars, and    other sci-fi films, it is evident that regardless of our    reasoning, our infatuation with space will continue into the    future.  <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>Go here to see the original: <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lanthorn.com\/article\/2017\/03\/space-exploration\" title=\"What is the fascination with space exploration? - Grand Valley Lanthorn\">What is the fascination with space exploration? - Grand Valley Lanthorn<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Jake Keeley | 3\/1\/17 11:23pm There are many things that I do not understand, but I do not think I am alone when I say that I do not understand the fascination with space. Im sure if we surveyed elementary aged children, one of the most frequent occurring desired occupations would be an astronaut.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/space-exploration\/what-is-the-fascination-with-space-exploration-grand-valley-lanthorn.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[431611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-exploration"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212683"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}