{"id":22758,"date":"2014-02-24T07:45:36","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T17:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=22758"},"modified":"2020-06-08T16:22:47","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T02:22:47","slug":"uh-astronomer-discusses-future-of-human-survival-beyond-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2014\/02\/24\/uh-astronomer-discusses-future-of-human-survival-beyond-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> astronomer discusses future of human survival beyond Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_22796\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22796\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/astronaut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22796\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/astronaut.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/astronaut-130x130.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/astronaut-260x260.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/astronaut-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22796\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Image by Karen Teramura, <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa Institute for Astronomy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifa.hawaii.edu\/\">Institute for Astronomy<\/a>  astronomer <strong>Roberto Mendez<\/strong> will be presenting Beyond Earth: Strategies for Long-Term Human Survival. The Frontiers of Astronomy community event public lecture will take place on Thursday, March 6, 7:30 p.m. at the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa Art Building Auditorium, room 132.<\/p>\n<p>According to Mendez, Earth is not a safe place. Geological and paleontological evidence indicates that life on Earth has been punctuated by several mass extinctions caused by hazards both local (ice ages, volcanoes) and external (comet or asteroid hits). To optimize our chances of long-term survival (millions of years), we must colonize the solar system and then spread across the galaxy. This talk will describe a plausible strategy for future human survival that does not depend on finding Earth-like planets around other stars. <\/p>\n<p>The event is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/calendar\/manoa\/2014\/03\/06\/23442.html?et_id=30993\">A <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa news release<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>UH<\/abbr> Institute for Astronomy&#8217;s Roberto Mendez presents a public lecture, Beyond Earth: Strategies for Long-Term Human Survival. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[34,35,9,947],"class_list":["post-22758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-astronomy","tag-institute-for-astronomy","tag-uh-manoa","tag-uh-system","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22758"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120348,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22758\/revisions\/120348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}