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The year is 1492. You're imagining standing on the shore of a vast continent, unexplored by your people. The only feeling/thought you have at that imagined mome
by Torkel 5y ago
The year is 1492. You're imagining standing on the shore of a vast continent, unexplored by your people. The only feeling/thought you have at that imagined moment is “What the hell am I doing here?”
That is perfectly reasonable! But I hope you can appreciate that the imagined feeling/thought is not shared by everyone.
- stavros 5y agoThat's not very comparable, because you could easily live a very fulfilling life in a new continent (well, except Australia, I guess?), but being on the surface of the moon would be a constant struggle for survival.
- rswail 5y agoYou could live a very fulfilling life next to Sydney Harbor, or Melbourne's Port Phillip Bay, or... well, anywhere that people have lived in Australia for the past 50,000+ years.
- stavros 5y agoYes, I realize there are people happily living in Australia, that was the joke :(
- Torkel 5y agoExplorers do not become explorers from a wish for "easily living a very fulfilling life". There was nothing guaranteed about the quality of life offered by the great women and men who traveled the seas in ages past, and indeed many of them perished.
- jfrunyon 5y agoNo, colonizing a new continent was not "easy". It, too, was a constant struggle for survival. New pests, new climate, new soil, new flora and fauna, communication (or battle) with natives, etc.
- stavros 5y agoAt least it had air, though.
- pavel_lishin 5y ago> being on the surface of the moon would be a constant struggle With today's technology, yes. And as others pointed out, life on a new continent wasn't all roses, either.
- jasonwatkinspdx 5y agoThese two situations are vastly different. This is also a very eurocentric point of view that ignores that people were already living in the Americas. What happened in 1492 was not grand explorers finding undiscovered country in the star trek sense. It was conquerers finding a new land they were ignorant of rich with resources they could take by force via superior military power.