{"id":8300,"date":"2017-03-19T11:01:09","date_gmt":"2017-03-19T18:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8300"},"modified":"2017-03-21T11:03:36","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T18:03:36","slug":"moonbase-2037","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2017\/03\/19\/moonbase-2037\/","title":{"rendered":"Moonbase 2037"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/science\/space-colonies-orbiting-earth-20-years-expert-prediction-a7623726.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from The Independent<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\" \">Thousands of people could live in space colonies orbiting the Earth in 20 years, expert claims<\/h1>\n<div class=\"intro\">\n<p><em>Space colonists might live longer and eventually grow taller than humans left behind on Earth, Jerry Stone tells\u00a0The Independent\u00a0ahead of British Science Festival lecture<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>by\u00a0<a title=\"Ian Johnston\" href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/author\/ian-johnston\" target=\"_blank\">Ian Johnston<\/a><\/p>\n<picture title=\"spacecolony1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"spacecolony1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/static.independent.co.uk\/s3fs-public\/styles\/article_small\/public\/thumbnails\/image\/2017\/03\/10\/18\/spacecolony1.jpg\" alt=\"spacecolony1.jpg\" \/><\/picture><em>The colonies would float in space as individual galactic \u2018islands\u2019\u00a0<span class=\"copyright\">Rick Guidice\/Nasa<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Thousands of people could be living in floating space colonies orbiting the Earth in 20 years\u2019\u00a0time, according to the head of a project by the British Interplanetary Society (BIS).<\/p>\n<p>And, while life in space might sound unappealing to some, Jerry Stone believe it could actually be healthier than planet Earth, enabling people to live longer and, eventually, grow taller.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Stone, author of the book\u00a0<em>One Small Step<\/em>\u00a0about the moon landings, and other members of the BIS have been updating research carried out in the US in the 1970s into how humans could start living in space in large numbers.<\/p>\n<p>In a speech in Aberdeen\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishscienceweek.org\/events\/colonies-in-space\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">as part of British Science Week<\/a>, Mr Stone will claim humanity is now close to the point where such colonies could be built using material taken from the Moon and asteroids.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/science\/space-colonies-orbiting-earth-20-years-expert-prediction-a7623726.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at The Independent<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Independent Thousands of people could live in space colonies orbiting the Earth in 20 years, expert claims Space colonists might live longer and eventually grow taller than humans left behind on Earth, Jerry Stone tells\u00a0The Independent\u00a0ahead of British Science Festival lecture by\u00a0Ian Johnston The colonies would float in space as individual galactic \u2018islands\u2019\u00a0Rick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}