{"id":87,"date":"2010-01-29T20:19:29","date_gmt":"2010-01-30T00:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitc.bme.emory.edu\/~lzhou\/blogs\/?p=87"},"modified":"2010-01-29T20:19:29","modified_gmt":"2010-01-30T00:19:29","slug":"abandoning-deep-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csic.som.emory.edu\/~lzhou\/blogs\/?p=87","title":{"rendered":"Abandoning Deep Space?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just heard that President Obama is going to slash the funding for going back to the Moon. As well, the sight of NASA would be drown back to near earth space.<\/p>\n<p>This is simply a death sentence to the future.<\/p>\n<p>The earth is limited, and we are running very close to its limitation of capability, of holding any more population.\u00a0 There is nothing in the near earth space.\u00a0 And near earth space stations are very hard to be supported because the cost of lifting cargos to there.<\/p>\n<p>The only hope lays in the space of solar system beyond the earth orbit.\u00a0 There are easy to reach resources from asteroids and comets.\u00a0 Future techniques are supposed to construct self-sustainable space stations out of them.\u00a0 All of this would have to be started from a double reinforced space project.<\/p>\n<p>If the US abandons it, it is giving up hope.\u00a0 Fortunately, the US is not the only country that has the ability of doing space launch.\u00a0 Hopefully the others won&#8217;t follow suit, to leave the human being hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just heard that President Obama is going to slash the funding for going back to the Moon. As well, the sight of NASA would be drown back to near earth space. This is simply a death sentence to the future. The earth is limited, and we are running very close to its limitation of capability, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-and-beyond-the-world","post-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csic.som.emory.edu\/~lzhou\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csic.som.emory.edu\/~lzhou\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csic.som.emory.edu\/~lzhou\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csic.som.emory.edu\/~lzhou\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csic.som.emory.edu\/~lzhou\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/csic.som.emory.edu\/~lzhou\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csic.som.emory.edu\/~lzhou\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csic.som.emory.edu\/~lzhou\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csic.som.emory.edu\/~lzhou\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}