{"id":315203,"date":"2021-09-17T08:47:51","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T08:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=214390"},"modified":"2021-09-17T08:47:51","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T08:47:51","slug":"elon-musks-spacefaring-civilization-is-a-pipe-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/09\/17\/elon-musks-spacefaring-civilization-is-a-pipe-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s Spacefaring Civilization is a Pipe Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earth is like four-and-a-half billion years old. In another half billion years or so the sun will expand and probably evaporate the oceans and make life impossible on Earth, which means that if it had taken consciousness ten percent longer to evolve it would never have evolved at all. Just ten percent longer. And I  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/09\/17\/elon-musks-spacefaring-civilization-is-a-pipe-dream\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/09\/17\/elon-musks-spacefaring-civilization-is-a-pipe-dream\/\">Elon Musk\u2019s Spacefaring Civilization is a Pipe Dream<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/09\/17\/elon-musks-spacefaring-civilization-is-a-pipe-dream\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earth is like four-and-a-half billion years old. In another half billion years or so the sun will expand and probably evaporate the oceans and make life impossible on Earth, which means that if it had taken consciousness ten percent longer to evolve it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315203"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315203"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315459,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315203\/revisions\/315459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}