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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 su
by 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 agoWe couldn't find a 777 plane in an ocean. Maybe technology made us feel the earth is small.
- onion2k 4y agoThe area of the Pacific is 386,900,000,000 times larger than the wing area of a 777.
- scoopertrooper 4y agoAnd given what we do know (various wing bits have washed up on beaches), those wings broke apart on impact.
- praveen9920 4y agoWe are talking area, we didn’t consider depth. We should change the idiom to “searching 777 in pacific”
- mkl 4y agoJust 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.