Human beings are a social and curious species. No matter how much land we attain, we always
want to find and explore more. Our
planet has already been explored almost completely, minus the ocean depths, and
now humans are looking for the next great adventure, space. When I was younger I used to venture out into
the woods and explore. The thought of
not knowing what lurked beyond the border of my backyard made me want to check
it out. I feel like because humans don’t
know what lies beyond the borders of our atmosphere, it just causes our
curiosity to peak and prompts us to attempt an exploration of it. Our human nature has developed to the point
where our species has become very expansive and technological to be able to
achieve the goal of space exploration.
It seems like the trickier the mission, whether it was “exploring the
new world” or being the first country to put a man on the moon, every
accomplishment just makes people more eager to discover more. Space may seem like the ultimate unknown but
when humans begin exploring it further, it may not live up to
expectations. I think the fact that
space is hard to explore is good because it challenges people to invent greater
technologies. Our civilization, overall,
I believe has become more fearless and able to embrace adventure rather than
avoid it. Everything that has been
explored has earned someone some kind of recognition or fame making glory
seekers out of some people. In the
future I think there will be many more people discovering secrets of space, as
the technology permits. Without
technology we can’t explore further and without curiosity, humans would never
attain the right technology to do so.
There will always be future explorers searching to see if space is
really the final frontier.
The human condition will be the biggest challenge that we encounter no matter what we look into doing to improve ourselves. Space travel would be a huge challenge no matter what, but putting the human error into the equation makes it that much harder. In a lot of ways I believe that our desire to move into space is an extension of our colonial era selves resurfacing in a new way ( not that we have ever left our colonial era). While we are eager to discover more, i think we need to make more of a real effort to understand ourselves and what we do on Earth before we try to move forward.
ReplyDeleteThere's definitely a snowball effect when it comes to humans' curiosity. Once one area is successfully explored, it's time to chase the next with tailored technology and increased determination. We can compare early earth-explorers with the astronauts of today. They're both seekers of some combination of knowledge, adoration, and opportunity. Astronauts just happen to get the bigger and more technology-hungry unknown to explore. While astronauts will need an inane amount of years to explore every inch of space out there, there's may be yet another layer to explore beyond that, as you said. Interesting to think that the universe and all its galaxies may just be a sub-layer of something larger.
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