[NKosmatos]

When people talk about exploring they usually have in their minds the great explorers of the previous centuries, who managed to get to “new” places on earth and discovered countries.

I think this is directly related to our means (and speed) of transportation. From the very old days where horses were used, then with cars, trains, boats, planes and so on. We’re “the middle children”, as the post states, stuck on this planet without sufficient speed to break our earth bound chains.

Let’s hope that Faster Than Light travel, or some other exotic way, will allow us to roam the stars and continue our civilization (with its bad and good behaviors).

[defrost]

I'm a person, when I talk about exploring I think about Len Beadell who taught me how to shoot stars and use a theodolite, I think about Tim Cope riding a horse 6,000 miles across the Eurasian steppe from Mongolia, through Kazakhstan, Russia, and the Ukraine, to Hungary, about the women who have solo crossed Australia with camels and the lass that rode a horse across the southern coast during the pandemic, about Bruce Parry scaling Mandela after sneaking through the jungle of New Guinea dodging the Indonesians.

These are all examples of human exploration in my lifetime, the kind of thing that inspires you to hitch a ride on a pearling lugger and shoot the horizontal falls in a home made sea kayak, scope out the tower in Sydney for the Chris Hilton climb *, cross the NZ south island and Tasmania on foot and all manner of fun things still left in the world.

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qch1Gd8VLK0