{"id":74828,"date":"2021-05-27T13:52:18","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T17:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/?p=74828"},"modified":"2021-05-27T13:52:21","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T17:52:21","slug":"harvard-scientist-space-exploration-uplifts-and-gives-meaning-to-humans-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/blog\/2021\/05\/27\/harvard-scientist-space-exploration-uplifts-and-gives-meaning-to-humans-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvard Scientist: Space Exploration Uplifts and Gives Meaning to Humans\u2019 Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:19px\"><strong>Harvard Scientist Says Space Exploration Uplifts and Gives Meaning to Humans\u2019 Lives<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">May 25 (EIRNS)&#8211;In an interview with <em>The Federalist<\/em> publisher Ben Domenech, on <em>Fox<\/em> News&#8217;s \u00abThe Ben Domenech podcast,\u00bb Harvard professor Avi Loeb, a renowned theoretical physicist, former chair of Harvard\u2019s astronomy department, and author of the book \u00abExtraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligence Life Beyond Earth.\u00bb argued that scientific institutions should be taking risks and fund risky research, rather than just promising what they can deliver. \u00abThese are the most boring projects,\u00bb he said. \u00abIf you can tell in advance what you can discover, then it\u2019s not a major advance.\u00bb The title of the <a href=\"https:\/\/radio.foxnews.com\/2021\/05\/24\/avi-loeb-the-importance-of-inquiry\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/radio.foxnews.com\/2021\/05\/24\/avi-loeb-the-importance-of-inquiry\/\">podcast<\/a> is \u00abAvi Loeb and the Importance of Inquiry,\u00bb in which he discusses an array of subjects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Loeb argues that Earth&#8217;s demise is guaranteed over the long term, so outer space ought to reclaim its fundamental role in the pursuit of academic progress. \u00abCurrently, all our eggs are in one basket here on Earth,\u00bb he said, \u00aband if any catastrophe happens here it could destroy everything we care about.\u00bb Moreover, humans need the inspiration captured by space exploration. \u00abWe need something beyond our troubles that lifts us up and gives meaning to our lives,\u00bb he said, pointing out that the Apollo program once served that purpose by landing people on the Moon which \u00abchanged the psychology of humans.\u00bb He also argued that space and religion complement each other: \u00abif you believe in God, then what you want is to appreciate reality to its greatest details. That will give you the wonder and awe that otherwise you would not have.\u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvard Scientist Says Space Exploration Uplifts and Gives Meaning to Humans\u2019 Lives May 25 (EIRNS)&#8211;In an interview with The Federalist publisher Ben Domenech, on Fox News&#8217;s \u00abThe Ben Domenech podcast,\u00bb Harvard professor Avi Loeb, a renowned theoretical physicist, former chair of Harvard\u2019s astronomy department, and author of the book \u00abExtraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":74829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[520,505,98],"tags":[842],"class_list":["post-74828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-updates-development","category-updates","category-updates-space","tag-lang-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74828"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74840,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74828\/revisions\/74840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}