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I imagine being an archaeologist and spend months/years digging and digging and digging and not finding anything relevant and then you find something like this.
by darkwater 4y ago
I imagine being an archaeologist and spend months/years digging and digging and digging and not finding anything relevant and then you find something like this. The emotions, the feeling of achievement, the joy, must be something not easy to find in any other profession.
- bluepizza 4y agoAnd imagine the next day, when you are back to square zero.
- toyg 4y agoA find like this will not leave you back to zero - you'll run conferences on the find alone for decades, and then there is all the work to examine and exhibit the findings. These events can be life-changing.
- toyg 4y agoThis is "winning the World Cup" / "getting the Nobel/Oscar" tier of happiness - something that the 0.0001% of the profession will ever experience, but that powers the dreams (and hence, the actions) of everyone in the field.