{"id":2572,"date":"2015-10-06T22:00:06","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T22:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joshworth.com\/?p=2572"},"modified":"2019-10-30T13:31:33","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T13:31:33","slug":"78-coins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/78-coins\/","title":{"rendered":"78 Coins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.joshworth.com\/dev\/78coins\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload alignnone wp-image-2573 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joshworth.com\/jw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/78Coinstitleimage1.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.joshworth.com\/jw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/78Coinstitleimage1.jpg\" alt=\"78 Coins\" width=\"1329\" height=\"605\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%271329%27%20height%3D%27605%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%201329%20605%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%271329%27%20height%3D%27605%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/78Coinstitleimage1-200x91.jpg 200w, https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/78Coinstitleimage1-300x137.jpg 300w, https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/78Coinstitleimage1-400x182.jpg 400w, https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/78Coinstitleimage1-600x273.jpg 600w, https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/78Coinstitleimage1-768x350.jpg 768w, https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/78Coinstitleimage1-800x364.jpg 800w, https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/78Coinstitleimage1-1024x466.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/78Coinstitleimage1-1200x546.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/78Coinstitleimage1.jpg 1329w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 1329px) 100vw, 1329px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been looking at pictures from the Hubble telescope lately and thinking about\u00a0the huge number of stars in the universe. I found myself wondering how life on Earth fits into the context of such vastness.<\/p>\n<p>At this point in history, it feels pretty lonely out here. No aliens coming to invade us, no\u00a0other planets to talk to, not even a\u00a0Facebook message from another galaxy. The closest thing we&#8217;ve got to a sign\u00a0of neighboring life is a few\u00a0trickles of water on Mars.<\/p>\n<p>If Earth\u00a0were truly the only planet in the universe with life, how special would that make us, exactly?<\/p>\n<p>I decided to take a closer look at the question in an interactive essay.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joshworth.com\/dev\/78coins\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Visit\u00a078 Coins: Why We&#8217;re Probably Not Alone in the Universe\u00a0<\/a><\/strong>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tAn interactive essay about why we&#8217;re probably not alone in the universe.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8,17],"tags":[108],"class_list":["post-2572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-curious","category-interactive","category-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joshworth.com\/jpw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}