{"id":246781,"date":"2023-09-12T15:35:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T14:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/?post_type=snippet&#038;p=246781"},"modified":"2023-09-12T15:35:01","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T14:35:01","slug":"life-on-k2-18","status":"publish","type":"snippet","link":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/snippet\/life-on-k2-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Life on K2-18?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How exciting that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-66786611\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a sign of life may potentially have been discovered on a distant planet<\/a>, especially after last year&#8217;s thrill over phosphine on Venus turned out to be a damp squib. And what a feat for science to be able to spot (or maybe spot) an organic molecule on a planet that&#8217;s 120 light years (1.1 million billion miles) away.<\/p>\n<p>Who but a terminal cynic could be indifferent to discovering life in the cosmos, even though there is zero chance of us ever visiting it? Mind you, the cynic might point out a certain irony in that capitalism spends a fortune looking for life on other planets, while simultaneously doing its best to obliterate life on this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-246781","snippet","type-snippet","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet\/246781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/snippet"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}