{"id":6515,"date":"2014-08-18T05:40:29","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T05:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=6515"},"modified":"2014-11-16T15:30:53","modified_gmt":"2014-11-16T15:30:53","slug":"2014-09-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2014-09-28\/","title":{"rendered":"Asteroid Mining and Colonizing Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 align=\"center\"><a title=\"Marc Perkel\" href=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2014-09-28\/\">Asteroid Mining and Colonizing Space<\/a><\/h3>\n<h4 align=\"center\"><a title=\"Marc Perkel\" href=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2014-09-28\/\">Marc Perkel<\/a><\/h4>\n<h4 align=\"center\"><a title=\"Marc Perkel\" href=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2014-09-28\/\">Sep 28, 2014<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6086\" src=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Marc-cropped-288x300.jpg\" alt=\"Marc cropped\" width=\"288\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Marc-cropped-288x300.jpg 288w, https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Marc-cropped.jpg 315w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 288px) 85vw, 288px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>How practical is asteroid mining and how soon will it happen?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s actually beginning to happen this year.<\/p>\n<p>Humanist Community member Marc Perkel will show a 30 minute video about Planetary Resources that explains asteroid mining in detail.<\/p>\n<p>He will also discuss the advantages of colonizing space itself rather that colonizing other planets, and create a new vision for the future of humanity.<\/p>\n<p>For more background you can watch the videos at:<br \/>\n<a title=\"Asteroid mining\" href=\"http:\/\/www.planetaryresources.com\/mission\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.planetaryresources.com\/mission\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/111498788\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/111498788\">Humanist Community Forum (2014-09-28): Asteroid Mining and Colonizing Space (Marc Perkel)<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user2798508\">Humanist Community-SiliconValley<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asteroid Mining and Colonizing Space Marc Perkel Sep 28, 2014 How practical is asteroid mining and how soon will it happen? It\u2019s actually beginning to happen this year. Humanist Community member Marc Perkel will show a 30 minute video about Planetary Resources that explains asteroid mining in detail. He will also discuss the advantages of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2014-09-28\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Asteroid Mining and Colonizing Space&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[71,126],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6515"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6515"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6836,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6515\/revisions\/6836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}