{"id":565,"date":"2008-02-08T14:18:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-08T14:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2008\/02\/08\/science-fiction-author-quote-of-the-day-114\/"},"modified":"2008-02-08T14:18:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-08T14:18:00","slug":"science-fiction-author-quote-of-the-day-114","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2008\/02\/08\/science-fiction-author-quote-of-the-day-114\/","title":{"rendered":"Science Fiction Author Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;This generation is crucial; we have the resources to get mankind off this planet. If we don&#8217;t do it, we may soon be facing a world of 15 billion people and more, a world in which it&#8217;s all we can do to stay alive; a world without the resources to go into space and get rich&#8230; I don&#8217;t think it will come to that because the vision of the future is so clear to me. We need realize only one thing: we do not inhabit &#8216;Only One Earth.&#8217; Mankind doesn&#8217;t live on Earth. Man lives in a solar system&#8230; Given [a] basic space civilization &#8230; we&#8217;ll have accomplished one goal: no single accident, no war, no one insane action will finish us off.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Jerry Pournelle, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Step-Farther-Out-Jerry-Pournelle\/dp\/0441785832\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1202480387&#038;sr=8-1\"><em>A Step Farther Out<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<div class='kindleWidget kindleLight' ><img src=\"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/plugins\/send-to-kindle\/media\/white-15.png\" \/><span>Send to Kindle<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;This generation is crucial; we have the resources to get mankind off this planet. If we don&#8217;t do it, we may soon be facing a world of 15 billion people and more, a world in which it&#8217;s all we can &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2008\/02\/08\/science-fiction-author-quote-of-the-day-114\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}