{"id":23594,"date":"2023-09-18T08:39:09","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T12:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=23594"},"modified":"2023-09-18T19:57:12","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T23:57:12","slug":"are-aliens-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2023\/09\/18\/are-aliens-real\/","title":{"rendered":"Are aliens real?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/aw09182023-06.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"304\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/aw09182023-06.jpg\" alt=\"Are aliens real?\" class=\"wp-image-23593\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/aw09182023-06.jpg 320w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/aw09182023-06-300x285.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Are aliens real?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I think I would go with yes and no: Yes, life likely exists on other planets. Given the number of stars, the likelihood of no life elsewhere would be astronomically small. No, its highly unlikely they&#8217;ve been able to visit here, given the vast distances involved. We have plenty of problems to solve here without imagining additional ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I would go with yes and no: Yes, life likely exists on other planets. Given the number of stars, the likelihood of no life elsewhere would be astronomically small. No, its highly unlikely they&#8217;ve been able to visit here, given the vast distances involved. We have plenty of problems to solve here without &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2023\/09\/18\/are-aliens-real\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Are aliens real?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23594"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23600,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23594\/revisions\/23600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}