{"id":161,"date":"2007-01-26T12:56:08","date_gmt":"2007-01-26T17:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=161"},"modified":"2007-12-13T12:19:58","modified_gmt":"2007-12-13T16:19:58","slug":"interview-with-buzz-aldrin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=161","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Buzz Aldrin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <A HREF=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/tableofmalcontents\/\">Table of Malcontents<\/A> blog has posted an interview with astronaut Buzz Aldrin about his new documentary <I>In The Shadow Of The Moon<\/I>.  He also talks a bit about Mars colonization, and the genre of science fiction.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><B>Me:<\/B> You&#8217;ve written science fiction books. Are you fan of the genre?<\/p>\n<p><B>Aldrin:<\/B> I read a lot of science magazines and stories about the evolution and history of living species and planetary formations. I&#8217;m not a real avid science fiction reader because I&#8217;m interested in reality. It&#8217;s really easy to poke holes in almost any of the stories that come out. If you can beam people up or down then you don&#8217;t have to go through the complicated process of coming down from orbit and going through a landing. It&#8217;s much easier to just go to the transporter room and beam people up and down.<\/p>\n<p><B>Me:<\/B> Sounds like you&#8217;re a bit frustrated with sci-fi.<\/p>\n<p><B>Aldrin:<\/B> Well, I understand the pros and cons. I&#8217;m concerned that we&#8217;re educating a generation that has great expectations that we can do something immediately.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/tableofmalcontents\/2007\/01\/sundance_2007_b_1.html\">Link<\/A> <I>(via <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/\">BoingBoing<\/A>)<\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Table of Malcontents blog has posted an interview with astronaut Buzz Aldrin about his new documentary In The Shadow Of The Moon. He also talks a bit about Mars colonization, and the genre of science fiction. Me: You&#8217;ve written science fiction books. Are you fan of the genre? Aldrin: I read a lot of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}