Born too late to explore the earth,
Born too early to explore the universe

That's a bit short-sighted, innit? Lots of places here are home remain unexplored, and astronomers (especially the radio types) are exploring the universe - literally - every single day and turning up new wonders at a pace that doesn't half make your head go round.

Boru

I prefer: Born at just the right time to witness us begin to explore our humanity.

(September 15, 2015 at 7:07 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: That's a bit short-sighted, innit?  Lots of places here are home remain unexplored, and astronomers (especially the radio types) are exploring the universe - literally - every single day and turning up new wonders at a pace that doesn't half make your head go round.

Boru

Talking about physical exploration. NASA is completely under-funded, when we went to the moon people thought we'd be on mars within 20 years, 50 years later we are only just starting to talk about that. It will be millennium before we develop the technology to explore a significant part of space.

(September 15, 2015 at 7:03 pm)heatiosrs Wrote: Born too late to explore the earth,
Born too early to explore the universe

Holy The-Glass-Is-Half-Empty, Batman.

(September 15, 2015 at 7:15 pm)MTL Wrote:

(September 15, 2015 at 7:03 pm)heatiosrs Wrote: Born too late to explore the earth,
Born too early to explore the universe

Holy The-Glass-Is-Half-Empty, Batman.

Well, the topic is called "Sad-Reality"

There's not much of a bright side to look on in terms of what i was talking about.

(September 15, 2015 at 7:13 pm)heatiosrs Wrote:

(September 15, 2015 at 7:07 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: That's a bit short-sighted, innit?  Lots of places here are home remain unexplored, and astronomers (especially the radio types) are exploring the universe - literally - every single day and turning up new wonders at a pace that doesn't half make your head go round.

Boru

Talking about physical exploration. NASA is completely under-funded, when we went to the moon people thought we'd be on mars within 20 years, 50 years later we are only just starting to talk about that. It will be millennium before we develop the technology to explore a significant part of space.

Well...so what? You personally don't get to go a-spacefaring. Big, fat weeping deal. If everyone felt that way, scientific progress would be a gnat's whisker of what it is today. You're aware that we have up-close photos of Pluto and robots crawling round Mars, right?

But I suppose none of that matters because YOU aren't there. Cry me a feckin' river.

Boru

(September 15, 2015 at 7:20 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:

(September 15, 2015 at 7:13 pm)heatiosrs Wrote: Talking about physical exploration. NASA is completely under-funded, when we went to the moon people thought we'd be on mars within 20 years, 50 years later we are only just starting to talk about that. It will be millennium before we develop the technology to explore a significant part of space.

Well...so what?  You personally don't get to go a-spacefaring.  Big, fat weeping deal.  If everyone felt that way, scientific progress would be a gnat's whisker of what it is today.  You're aware that we have up-close photos of Pluto and robots crawling round Mars, right?

But I suppose none of that matters because YOU aren't there.  Cry me a feckin' river.

Boru

Calm down jesus, I am personally very interested in becoming an astronomer when I grow up, I look at those images on a daily basis.

There is a huge difference between looking at images of far away planets, and stepping foot on them, that doesn't mean we should give up on everything just because we can't physically touch them, that's not what I am saying so stop twisting my words.

(September 15, 2015 at 7:03 pm)heatiosrs Wrote: Born too late to explore the earth,
Born too early to explore the universe

How great a percentage of your personal dreams and ambitions hinged on personal space exploration?

I like the OP.

Yeah, it's a glass half empty way of looking at it but it's no less true. Pretty much the entirety of human past has seen humans able to really discover uncharted lands, for the first time. We can still explore today, but the opportunities for real discovery on Earth are a lot less than any time prior. The vast majority of land on Earth is mapped. Hell we have satellites giving us a pin-point birdseye view of the world.

Likewise we have new knowledge of the universe around us, but what's frustrating about that is we can't put our actual feet on those places. Not yet, and probably not in our lifetimes.

I don't get how Boru would extrapolate from this disappointment that we should stop exploring/discovering. Surely it would be an excuse to do the opposite?