Lenticular_J Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 Wow, this is like my eighth thread lately. I'm a busy little bee. So, we live in an age where hopefully there are no extreme mysteries about the Earth (I don't mean evolution and all that, I think you guys get what I mean. If not, I'll explain.). But, we're not yet exploring our so-called final frontier. I also don't want to swim around on the ocean floor. So where's the adventure? It's the one thing I've yearned for all my life. Imagine being a settler in the 1800's coming onto the Great Plains, and seeing on of the herds of buffalo ... from horizon to horizon, the entire land is blotted out by the animals. Or perhaps you're a sailor for Columbus. You're disgruntled and prepared to kill your captain within days. But, [garden tool], what's that ahead? Perhaps it's India! So, what I'm trying to say is, do you guys wish you lived in another age? Where adventure was commonplace and easy to reach? catch it now so you can like it before it went so mainstream Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riku3220 Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 I do have a sense for adventure, but these days you've got to be a marine biologist or an astronomer. We haven't fully explored our own planet and I hope to do some of that exploring. I want to have the feeling of discovering something new even if nobody in the world will give a damn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragoonson Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 I like history,so yes,I do.I'd much like the Crusades' period,though. so i herd u liek devarts?If you look at me and feel offended by my 666-ism,think.I could be just as offended by your "cross".[hide=This's why I'm hot]The Eleventh Commandment:Thou Shalst only say "Amen,brother".Amen, brother :lol:Amen, brudda (referring to the 10th commandment)amen Bruder! (german ftw)I'm invulnerable to everything, except Lenin and Dragoonson.That's impossible. I love people.[/hide] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barihawk Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 We've explored nothing except our own arrogance. There is plenty to learn and explore, not only physically. I for one explore our humanity and what has binded humans together for thousands of years. Others might explore the mind, or the cell, or medicine, energy conservation. We have got a long way to go before the "final frontier." My heart is broken by the terrible loss I have sustained in my old friends and companions and my poor soldiers. Believe me, nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won. -Sir Arthur Wellesley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ren0gade Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 I would really like the opportunity to see space, I think that is our real next adventure. There is so much out there... I may just freeze myself for 1000 years and hang out with Bender and smoke cigars for a little while, or go fight some crazy lizard monster with Kirk. Masta Chef Drops-- Dragon: Medium(2),Spear(1),Legs(2),Skirt(1) Pharaoh's Scepter(1) Barrows items(10 total) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmmcannibalism Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 Id love to see space/be on mars/moon colony we will build eventually As for another era, working with Einstein and other scientists working on general relativity would be awesome. Orthodoxy is unconciousnessthe only ones who should kill are those who are prepared to be killed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdgedThesis Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 Adventure? I crave it. But in another time? No. That's why I'm looking into astronautics, psychonautics,and hydronautics. I will sail through the pin-[puncture]ed blackness of space-- sail through the mysteries of the mind and human consciousness, and dive into the deepest of waters. Our time isn't bad. At what other point could someone base their life around a working trip to Mars? But I don't want to go among mad people!Oh, you can't help that. We're all mad here..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nadril Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 I have to agree that space really is going to be that next frontier. I can only imagine once technology improves and we start building colonies on other planets how much exploration there will be. I mean we still haven't explored all of our planet (the ocean) and the notion of all new planets is just amazing. Sadly I don't know if any of us are going to see that in our lifetime :(. Anyways as odd as it sounds I always thought exploring a post-apocalyptic setting would be interesting. Abandoned buildings and the like. Of course in practice I'm sure it would suck. :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blueblazes Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 The challenge is finding adventure in everyday life. Sometimes that is hard to do. As far as living in another age...no thanks. The world has changed so much just in the last 50, 20 or even 10 years...I think we are living in some pretty exciting (and sometimes difficult or turbulent) times right now. De do do do. De da da da. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzle229 Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 Read anything by Jack London and you'll wish you lived in the 1800's. As for now, no, there won't be any new adventures until space colonization. And on most plantes we may not even find anything. Get back here so I can rub your butt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickeley102 Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 Read anything by Jack London and you'll wish you lived in the 1800's. As for now, no, there won't be any new adventures until space colonization. And on most plantes we may not even find anything. Im pretty sure all his stuff is set in the 1900's. OT: I know what you mean about an adventure, look a t any rpg and you will see its about wandering around aimlessly to some final goal, you just cant do that. It would be cool though, wandering around, gotta catch them all, POKEMON! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdgedThesis Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 And failing any in-world attempts at adventure, there's always death. There probably is no afterlife, but if there is, then that would be quite an amazing trip. But I don't want to go among mad people!Oh, you can't help that. We're all mad here..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zierro Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 I've read that we will never even get close to conquering space or even be able to communicate across the cosmos effectively. I don't know what to think. Honestly, I have faith in mankind that we'll be able to achieve anything but then again is outer space really that important to us? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdgedThesis Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 Its something unknown, something unexplored. So its important in that it's just another thing to learn about. But I don't want to go among mad people!Oh, you can't help that. We're all mad here..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deiophobus Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 Sometimes I wish I lived a thousand years ago, it just feels like the way we live now isn't right. Then I remember that I probably would have had an awful life and died at the age of 20 then. But still. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzle229 Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 Read anything by Jack London and you'll wish you lived in the 1800's. As for now, no, there won't be any new adventures until space colonization. And on most plantes we may not even find anything. Im pretty sure all his stuff is set in the 1900's. Close. It's more like 1870's to 1900. Call of the Wild is 1896 I think. Get back here so I can rub your butt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BonScott Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 If you count 1941 - 1945 as an adventure then yes. I'd love to go fight in WWII.....I have the utmost respect for WWII verterans...my gandpa served in the navy in WWII.... "You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you are all the same." - Jonathan Davis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThurinEthir Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 If you want my opinion, we are kind of in a dark age. Wait, what? We're still inventing things, right? We're not failing or anything? True. But the great colonial empires have fallen within the past century or two, we've had two great wars, we have no possible place to expand. Like how Rome fell, Vikings, Magyars, Muslims invaded Europe, and all known inhabitable land was taken. (That last one is debatable, I suppose?) So I suppose a Renaissance is bound to happen. Some guy discovered a way to sail boats across oceans. And a whole new landmass was discovered. Likewise, some guy is going to discover a way for people to live on other celestial bodies. Sometime. Anyway, I would have loved to live in the Age of Exploration. Seeing a coastline no one else has seen...Finding tribes of people you never even knew existed...Must have been pretty stunning. I would also love to be granted a quest to destroy a ring in a volcano. Cenin pân nîd, istan pân nîd, dan nin ú-cenich, nin ú-istach.Ithil luin eria vi menel caran...Tîn dan delu. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rangeor Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 Yeah, I'd love to live during the Enlightenment. I was discussing this with my friends just yesterday, and I mentioned I'd love to live in the 1700s and one guy was like "haha, why?? you'd like, die of the plague or something!" :wall: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lenticular_J Posted March 5, 2009 Author Share Posted March 5, 2009 If you want my opinion, we are kind of in a dark age. Wait, what? We're still inventing things, right? We're not failing or anything? True. But the great colonial empires have fallen within the past century, we've had two great wars, we have no possible place to expand. Like how Rome fell, Vikings, Magyars, Muslims invaded Europe, and all known inhabitable land was taken. (That last one is debatable, I suppose?) So I suppose a Renaissance is bound to happen. Some guy discovered a way to sail boats across oceans. And a whole new landmass was discovered. Likewise, some guy is going to discover a way for people to live on other celestial bodies. Sometime. Anyway, I would have loved to live in the Age of Exploration. Seeing a coastline no one else has seen...Finding tribes of people you never even knew existed...Must have been pretty stunning. I would also love to be granted a quest to destroy a ring in a volcano. I've certainly considered this notion. I don't believe there is an end or anything to advancement, although it is hard to see where we're going next, but, I believe that soon we should actually have more of a Rome. I see those colonial empires as Greece. catch it now so you can like it before it went so mainstream Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quoi_Tu Posted March 6, 2009 Share Posted March 6, 2009 I wouldn't have minded being a road warrior during the 1960s. I probably wouldn't have gotten to college until I was 19 or 20, but it would have been good times traveling the country camping out and working odd construction jobs to make enough money to keep on going. Not exactly exploring the next frontier, but and adventure nonetheless. Beer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lionheart_0 Posted March 6, 2009 Share Posted March 6, 2009 I enjoy an adventuring. I think most people don't realize that there is still lots to explore. Sure you won't be the first one to find most places, but think about it. Have you seen every city in your town/city? Have you explored all the outskirts of said town/city? To see everything would probably take weeks or months. That's a lot of time, and a lot of things to see and learn and explore. Just because someone has found something, dosen't mean you have. Sig by IkuraiYour Guide to Posting! Behave or I will send my Moose mounted Beaver launchers at you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rushrock Posted March 6, 2009 Share Posted March 6, 2009 Hmm, different places. In today's society, the closest equivelant is to study some sort of science or join the military. I'm not really good with ages, but it would be awesome to explore Middle Earth. All of it. That sounds cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lionheart_0 Posted March 6, 2009 Share Posted March 6, 2009 Hmm, different places. In today's society, the closest equivelant is to study some sort of science or join the military. I'm not really good with ages, but it would be awesome to explore Middle Earth. All of it. That sounds cool. Like this? [hide=][/hide] Sig by IkuraiYour Guide to Posting! Behave or I will send my Moose mounted Beaver launchers at you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzle229 Posted March 6, 2009 Share Posted March 6, 2009 Hmm, different places. In today's society, the closest equivelant is to study some sort of science or join the military. I'm not really good with ages, but it would be awesome to explore Middle Earth. All of it. That sounds cool. Like this? [hide=][/hide] It's always the epic pics I can't see..... Get back here so I can rub your butt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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