{"id":19630,"date":"2015-07-20T18:31:18","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T10:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/stephen-hawking-searches-for-aliens-and-elon-musk-explains-the-spacex-explosion\/"},"modified":"2015-07-20T18:31:18","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T10:31:18","slug":"stephen-hawking-searches-for-aliens-and-elon-musk-explains-the-spacex-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/stephen-hawking-searches-for-aliens-and-elon-musk-explains-the-spacex-explosion\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Hawking searches for aliens, and Elon Musk explains the SpaceX explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_188088\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-188088\" style=\"width: 176px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-188088\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/boyle11-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Alan Boyle\" width=\"176\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/boyle11-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/boyle11-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/boyle11-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/boyle11-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/boyle11.jpg 368w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-188088\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alan Boyle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We\u2019ve been thrilled&nbsp;to have longtime space and science reporter Alan Boyle covering two big stories for GeekWire today: Stephen Hawking\u2019s announcement of a $100 million initiative&nbsp;to find alien life, and Elon Musk\u2019s news conference about&nbsp;a preliminary finding in&nbsp;the&nbsp;recent SpaceX Falcon 9 explosion.<\/p>\n<p>Before&nbsp;leaving the&nbsp;GeekWire offices this afternoon,&nbsp;Alan sat down and talked with us about both stories, as well as the latest news about&nbsp;Pluto \u2014 a subject he tracks closely as the author of \u201cThe Case for Pluto: How A Little Planet Made A Big Difference.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Listen to our conversation with Alan about&nbsp;all of those topics below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/215599261&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Boyle We\u2019ve been thrilled&nbsp;to have longtime space and science reporter Alan Boyle covering two big stories for GeekWire today: Stephen Hawking\u2019s announcement of a $100 million initiative&nbsp;to find alien life, and Elon Musk\u2019s news conference about&nbsp;a preliminary finding in&nbsp;the&nbsp;recent SpaceX Falcon 9 explosion. Before&nbsp;leaving the&nbsp;GeekWire offices this afternoon,&nbsp;Alan sat down and talked with us [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1045,21,316,3755],"class_list":["post-19630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-elon-musk","tag-space","tag-spacex","tag-stephen-hawking"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19630"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}