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Why is everything always the final frontier? Its kind of depressing that they said that space is the FINAL frontier. Does that mean we have nothing to aspire to
by mflindell 13y ago
Why is everything always the final frontier? Its kind of depressing that they said that space is the FINAL frontier. Does that mean we have nothing to aspire to after that? Now apparently the new "final frontier" is lettuce.
- sdfjkl 13y agoIt's a pretty big frontier. So far we're just looking out the window and carefully sticking a toe out the door now and then.
- zem 13y agoi think the theory is that, "space" going on forever, it is one vast, unending frontier beyond which there can be no others. also (seriously) the phrase "final frontier" being alliterative gives it a lot of memetic staying power.
- mflindell 13y agoI'm sure back a few hundred years, sailors would have claimed that the other side of the ocean is the final frontier. Seems like just a way of looking at it to entice people into believing in a cause.
- krapp 13y agoThere was something on the other side of that ocean, though, besides more ocean.
- mflindell 13y agoWell we know that now, they wouldn't know whats behind the ocean back then. Remember the idea that the earth was flat? At the moment we are at a point in time where we cant see the end of space but there might be another "ocean" at the end, who knows!
- aninhumer 13y ago>Remember the idea that the earth was flat? Actually this is a common misconception. Educated people have known the earth was spherical since the birth of astronomy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_Flat_Earth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_Flat_Earth
- krapp 13y agostupid lightcone, always ruining infinity...