{"id":13340,"date":"2019-04-02T11:11:01","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T18:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=13340"},"modified":"2019-12-24T11:22:50","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T19:22:50","slug":"13340","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/04\/02\/13340\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:2272,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/gizmodo.com\\\/nasa-debris-field-created-by-india-s-anti-satellite-te-1833740350&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250810210818\\\/https:\\\/\\\/gizmodo.com\\\/nasa-debris-field-created-by-india-s-anti-satellite-te-1833740350&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-04 07:00:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 05:11:58&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-02 04:33:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-16 08:10:17&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-19 23:26:34&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-19 23:26:34&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>A thought I&#8217;ve had on occasion, and has resurfaced thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/nasa-debris-field-created-by-india-s-anti-satellite-te-1833740350\">India&#8217;s anti-satellite test threatening the ISS<\/a>: What if the reason we&#8217;ve never heard from an alien race is that they all ended up with so much orbital junk that they can&#8217;t safely leave their planet anymore?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A thought I&#8217;ve had on occasion, and has resurfaced thanks to India&#8217;s anti-satellite test threatening the ISS: What if the reason we&#8217;ve never heard from an alien race is that they all ended up with so much orbital junk that they can&#8217;t safely leave their planet anymore?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2038],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-tech","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}