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I still wonder at the fact that reaching or flying a drone on a place on earth is still an "almost impossible" feat when humans are going out to space or even o

I still wonder at the fact that reaching or flying a drone on a place on earth is still an "almost impossible" feat when humans are going out to space or even other planets to explore. I understand the science, I still can't comprehend the fact. These small things are reminder that there is lot of exploration left for human kind.

ehnto 4y ago
Imagine the points in the wilderness we haven't truly explored due to lack of safe passage. Valleys or caves or even just particularly dense forest. I am not sure we would discover much new, but I do enjoy the fact that we haven't been everywhere. The internet can make it feel like all possible exploration has been done, reduced to datapoints and photos.
- ezconnect 4y ago
  We couldn't find a 777 plane in an ocean. Maybe technology made us feel the earth is small.
  - onion2k 4y ago
    The area of the Pacific is 386,900,000,000 times larger than the wing area of a 777.
    - scoopertrooper 4y ago
      And given what we do know (various wing bits have washed up on beaches), those wings broke apart on impact.
    - praveen9920 4y ago
      We are talking area, we didn’t consider depth. We should change the idiom to “searching 777 in pacific”
    - mkl 4y ago
      Just as well it went missing in the much smaller Indian Ocean then! A surprising amount of that ocean was searched in some way or other in the year following MH370's disappearance (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370#/media/File:MH370_SIO_search.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370#/...), but pieces of plane are still pretty small in comparison.
bongoman37 4y ago
Denvercoder9 4y ago
Not all places on Earth are built the same: the atmospheric density at the top of K2 is closer to that of space than that at sea level.
soheil 4y ago
We can barely dig deep enough in earth before our equipment either melt or explode due to high pressure. Yeah there is a lot of exploring left right here on earth. I think the current record is 12km and earth diameter is 12,000km.

ehnto 4y ago

Imagine the points in the wilderness we haven't truly explored due to lack of safe passage. Valleys or caves or even just particularly dense forest. I am not sure we would discover much new, but I do enjoy the fact that we haven't been everywhere. The internet can make it feel like all possible exploration has been done, reduced to datapoints and photos.

ezconnect 4y ago
We couldn't find a 777 plane in an ocean. Maybe technology made us feel the earth is small.
- onion2k 4y ago
  The area of the Pacific is 386,900,000,000 times larger than the wing area of a 777.
  - scoopertrooper 4y ago
    And given what we do know (various wing bits have washed up on beaches), those wings broke apart on impact.
  - praveen9920 4y ago
    We are talking area, we didn’t consider depth. We should change the idiom to “searching 777 in pacific”
  - mkl 4y ago
    Just as well it went missing in the much smaller Indian Ocean then! A surprising amount of that ocean was searched in some way or other in the year following MH370's disappearance (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370#/media/File:MH370_SIO_search.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370#/...), but pieces of plane are still pretty small in comparison.

bongoman37 4y ago

Denvercoder9 4y ago

Not all places on Earth are built the same: the atmospheric density at the top of K2 is closer to that of space than that at sea level.

soheil 4y ago

We can barely dig deep enough in earth before our equipment either melt or explode due to high pressure. Yeah there is a lot of exploring left right here on earth. I think the current record is 12km and earth diameter is 12,000km.