{"id":8854,"date":"2017-12-15T00:29:21","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T07:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8854"},"modified":"2017-12-16T22:19:47","modified_gmt":"2017-12-17T05:19:47","slug":"half-of-us-are-in-at-least","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2017\/12\/15\/half-of-us-are-in-at-least\/","title":{"rendered":"Half of us are in, at least."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/earthlings-alone-half-humans-believe-alien-life-001127588.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from Reuters via Yahoo! News<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Are Earthlings alone? Half of humans believe in alien life<\/h1>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ntns8Xp3-rA\" width=\"480\" height=\"272\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" data-reactid=\"41\">AMSTERDAM (Reuters) &#8211; Nearly half of humans believe in alien life and want to make contact, a survey in 24 countries has found, in what researchers said helps to explain the lasting popularity of the &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; franchise 40 years after the first movie was screened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" data-reactid=\"42\">On the eve of the release of &#8220;The Last Jedi&#8221;, researchers published findings that 47 percent of more than 26,000 respondents believe &#8220;in the existence of intelligent alien civilizations in the universe&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" data-reactid=\"43\">An even greater 61 percent said &#8220;yes&#8221; when asked if they believe in &#8220;some form of life on other planets&#8221;. Roughly a quarter said they do not.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\"43\">[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/earthlings-alone-half-humans-believe-alien-life-001127588.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at Yahoo!<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Reuters via Yahoo! News Are Earthlings alone? Half of humans believe in alien life AMSTERDAM (Reuters) &#8211; Nearly half of humans believe in alien life and want to make contact, a survey in 24 countries has found, in what researchers said helps to explain the lasting popularity of the &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; franchise 40 years [&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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8854","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=8854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}