Depending on how you define exploration, there's still an enormous amount of things and places left to explore on Earth, and not just inside its absolute most unreachable areas such as the deep ocean.<p>Even today, humanity, though widely spread around the globe, concretely occupies only a tiny fraction of the plant's surface, leaving enormous hollows with all kinds of curious secrets.<p>This is the very reason why even now we constantly have news of newly discovered species, newly discovered geographical features and new discoveries of ancient ruins even. Hell there are even major unclimbed mountains left in the world, now, in 2023.<p>Should even these be too much to ask for, simply finding places to travel to and looking into their more obscure corners, especially if you accompany this with some sort of hobby, like photography, or collecting or cataloging certain things, could leave you busy with adventure for decades.<p>No, nobody is going to discover any new continents or be the first ever to set foot in some large new region of the world, but reframing your expectations can work wonders for realizing just how much of the world is far from completely categorized, sorted, filmed and fully pigeonholed. It's absurd to think that only the void of space and the worlds within it are what's left for the deeply curious and adventurous.
<a href="https://vimeo.com/108650530" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://vimeo.com/108650530</a><p>also<p>"We are the middle children. Too late to explore the continents of Earth, too early to explore space.
I do not understand your sorrow.
My friend, we stand upon the backs of explorers whose sacrifices nurture us. We hold in our hands the keys to the garden of space in which the infinite spring of adventure pours. The fountain of youth is not one where old men go to stave off death's embrace, but it is where we send our children and their children so that they may live.<p>Brother, we are the Gatekeepers, the Architects, the Creators, the Bridgemen. It is our age that connects one era to another, one explorer to the next. We are not explorers, we were never really meant to be. Our children are the ones who will touch the intangible, ride asteroids around the stars; when they wake up, it will be stardust they scrape from their eyes.<p>Sister, our children cannot come into their own if we do not come into ours. Do not mourn a destiny that was never yours. We must make for them their future through our own sacrifices.<p>If you must, chug your alcohol and go to bed, but please be ready in the morning - we have work to do." - /u/bumrumble
We haven't even identified all of the bird species, and many prevalent bird species don't have complete life histories.<p>And that's before we talk about botany, which has vast frontiers that remain unexplored.<p>So we are certainly not "too late for the earth", unless we drive these species to extinction before we are able to study them.
I think there is a lot to explore, its just not easy wanderlust to run away from the problems of a dense society. The whole endavour to keep that society going & developing for really long term without it crashing as it did in all more fragile habbitats humanity has touched, thats a huge adventure.<p>Just not a comfortable or pleasant one.