{"id":206,"date":"2008-05-31T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-31T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/2008\/05\/arthur-c-clarke-beware-of-gamma-ray-bursts.html"},"modified":"2011-06-23T22:43:53","modified_gmt":"2011-06-23T12:43:53","slug":"arthur-c-clarke-beware-of-gamma-ray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/2008\/05\/arthur-c-clarke-beware-of-gamma-ray-206.html","title":{"rendered":"Arthur C Clarke: Beware of Gamma Ray Bursts"},"content":{"rendered":"

In June 2000, shortly after being knighted, Arthur C Clarke said<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“Some of the greatest threats to mankind’s future, are global warming, pollution, gamma ray bursts and the threat of an asteroid hitting the earth.<\/p>\n
…Gamma ray bursts are sudden outbursts of energy – several times more powerful than the sun – which may suddenly occur,” he elucidated.<\/p>\n
“If it happens during any of our lifetimes, we have all had it. I think that such a phenomenon may have affected evolution and if it happens again, there is nothing we can do about it.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In June 2000, shortly after being knighted, Arthur C Clarke said:
\n“Some of the greatest threats to mankind’s future, are global warming, pollution, gamma ray bursts and the threat of an asteroid hitting the earth.
\n…Gamma ray bursts are sudden outbursts of energy – several times more powerful than the sun – which may suddenly occur,” he elucidated.
\n“If it happens during any of our lifetimes, we have all had it. I think that such a phenomenon may have affected evolution and if it happens again, there is nothing we can do about it.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gamma-ray"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1425,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions\/1425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}