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> > The key features of adventure are A) risk and B) novelty. Space exploration absolutely features an abundance of both. If that is the case there are billion

> > The key features of adventure are A) risk and B) novelty. Space exploration absolutely features an abundance of both. If that is the case there are billions of activities ranging from unprotected sex to drug smuggling to drug consuming to riding motorcycles to hitting on wives on cartel bosses in Latin America...all right here on Earth and available to those who want to try them for a few bucks. I still mantain that feeling the elements on your skin and have all 5 senses stimulated while moving fast (but not too fast that you need protection) is the best definition of adventure and the one that most people would agree on...AKA "I'm flying Jack!!" , what would Rose say when going to space? "I am being propelled in vacuum by a mix of carbon, sulphur, and potassium nitrate, I can't feel anything because I am in my spacesuit strapped to the seat of this alluminium spaceship which I hope is airtight but this indicator here tells me I am moving faster than every human ever did, so it must be true, Jack!"

OkayPhysicist 3y ago
The more novelty there is, the more adventurous it is. The first climb of Mount Everest was no doubt a grander adventure than being one of hundreds each year today. Space is the final frontier, an untapped expanse of never-before experienced firsts. And come on, we have plenty of great astronaut quotes: "One small step for a man, One giant leap for mankind" ring any bells?
- JumpinJack_Cash 3y ago
  you described bragging rights and record chasers not novelty. Novelty is exactly the opposite of what you said. If you have never been on the Everest (or whatever activity really) and you experience it for the first time your sensation will be the same regardless of you being #1 or #75000 in the global ranking, because it will be the first time for you. Let’s talk practical examples, how many people have reached 120mph on a motorcycle? Millions if not billions, but when YOU do it for the first time it’s not like you are busy thinking of the millions of people who did it before you, you just have a good time. Fuck. And I mean fuck as a verb, should we not have sex anymore because we are not the first humans to ever have sex? The first people should have never fucked because they were not the first organisms to fuck? People who say holding their kid after they are born is the best moment of their lives, they feel on cloud 9 even though they are human #11,477,764,778 to experience such feeling At the end of the day space enthusiasts should test their belief and go live in Antartica for some 8 months during the winter and see for themselves. And that’s not even a true test because Antartica is the Garden of Eden compared to space
  - OkayPhysicist 3y ago
    You've gotten a little lost. Adventure is not just a synonym for "something fun to do". Sex, in the most vanilla sense of the word, isn't an adventure. It's not particularly risky, and it's not novel at all. Holding a baby is not an adventure at all. The "global novelty" aspect of adventure (aside from the "personal novelty") comes from the fact that you're entering the unknown. The adventurous nature of an activity is diminished if it's already common knowledge what you can expect from the experience.
dotnet00 3y ago
Are you actually interested in other people's answers or are you only concerned about pushing your opinion on others?
- JumpinJack_Cash 3y ago
  Mine is not an opinion, we have evolved to love Earth. Billions of people do the aforementioned activities yearly and it puts a smile on their faces. And we have been doing such stuff for millions of years Some hundreds people have been to space and they all look like they attempted and beat the locked cabin staying record, because for the mind and the body it’s exactly that. A locked cabin with a great view is still a locked cabin

OkayPhysicist 3y ago

The more novelty there is, the more adventurous it is. The first climb of Mount Everest was no doubt a grander adventure than being one of hundreds each year today. Space is the final frontier, an untapped expanse of never-before experienced firsts. And come on, we have plenty of great astronaut quotes: "One small step for a man, One giant leap for mankind" ring any bells?

JumpinJack_Cash 3y ago
you described bragging rights and record chasers not novelty. Novelty is exactly the opposite of what you said. If you have never been on the Everest (or whatever activity really) and you experience it for the first time your sensation will be the same regardless of you being #1 or #75000 in the global ranking, because it will be the first time for you. Let’s talk practical examples, how many people have reached 120mph on a motorcycle? Millions if not billions, but when YOU do it for the first time it’s not like you are busy thinking of the millions of people who did it before you, you just have a good time. Fuck. And I mean fuck as a verb, should we not have sex anymore because we are not the first humans to ever have sex? The first people should have never fucked because they were not the first organisms to fuck? People who say holding their kid after they are born is the best moment of their lives, they feel on cloud 9 even though they are human #11,477,764,778 to experience such feeling At the end of the day space enthusiasts should test their belief and go live in Antartica for some 8 months during the winter and see for themselves. And that’s not even a true test because Antartica is the Garden of Eden compared to space
- OkayPhysicist 3y ago
  You've gotten a little lost. Adventure is not just a synonym for "something fun to do". Sex, in the most vanilla sense of the word, isn't an adventure. It's not particularly risky, and it's not novel at all. Holding a baby is not an adventure at all. The "global novelty" aspect of adventure (aside from the "personal novelty") comes from the fact that you're entering the unknown. The adventurous nature of an activity is diminished if it's already common knowledge what you can expect from the experience.

dotnet00 3y ago

Are you actually interested in other people's answers or are you only concerned about pushing your opinion on others?

JumpinJack_Cash 3y ago
Mine is not an opinion, we have evolved to love Earth. Billions of people do the aforementioned activities yearly and it puts a smile on their faces. And we have been doing such stuff for millions of years Some hundreds people have been to space and they all look like they attempted and beat the locked cabin staying record, because for the mind and the body it’s exactly that. A locked cabin with a great view is still a locked cabin