{"id":1838,"date":"2013-03-28T17:36:22","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T21:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1838"},"modified":"2013-03-28T17:36:22","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T21:36:22","slug":"astrobiology-the-search-for-extraterrestrial-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1838","title":{"rendered":"Astrobiology The Search for Extraterrestrial Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you that are in the Lakeland area and have a free couple of hours to spare,I will be speaking at the \u00c2\u00a0Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Lakeland, 3140 Troy Ave Lakeland Fl, on Sunday the 21st of April 1.30 pm.\u00c2\u00a0 The talk &#8221; The Search for Extraterrestrial Life&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0will cover quite a few topics including, what life as we know it is, how to look for life in our own solar\u00c2\u00a0system and how we search for life in other areas of the Universe. I have just finished a 15 week course from the University of Edinburgh and found the topic fascinating,I hope those who attend will feel the same.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you that are in the Lakeland area and have a free couple of hours to spare,I will be speaking at the \u00c2\u00a0Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Lakeland, 3140 Troy Ave Lakeland Fl, on Sunday the 21st of April &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1838\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-tE","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":900,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=900","url_meta":{"origin":1838,"position":0},"title":"Happy Birthday, Mr. Darwin","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"February 12, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"-- The Miami Herald says happy birthday to Charles Darwin: Biologists know that Darwin is still relevant. 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