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?
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?
