{"id":1990,"date":"2010-11-16T02:09:47","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T02:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/16\/life_on_mars\/"},"modified":"2024-11-30T04:29:33","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T09:29:33","slug":"life_on_mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/16\/life_on_mars\/","title":{"rendered":"Life on Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>For the record,<\/strong> in case any of you are or know eccentric billionaires, I would ABSOLUTELY be willing to <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5690489\/the-fastest-way-to-send-humans-to-mars-is-to-not-worry-about-bringing-them-back\" >go to Mars<\/a>, regardless of whether or not there were a way to get back. In fact, that would be a certain part of the appeal. Surely the need for this fatalistic derring-do of mine is of vital importance toward future colonization, right? Surely a Mars mission needs an introspective (yet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smbc-comics.com\/index.php?db=comics&#038;id=2036\" >appropriately sociable<\/a>) designer\/zinester to document the journey and the inevitable decline of the first colony, right? How else would future generations learn? I already have a thing for space suits! SEND ME TO MARS, DAMNIT!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the record, in case any of you are or know eccentric billionaires, I would ABSOLUTELY be willing to go to Mars, regardless of whether or not there were a way to get back. In fact, that would be a certain part of the appeal. Surely the need for this fatalistic derring-do of mine is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/16\/life_on_mars\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Life on Mars&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultrapersonal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69178,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990\/revisions\/69178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}