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Permalink Reply by Henrique Vilhena on February 6, 2012 at 8:39pm

Hello Charlie and welcome to the Explorers group! I hope you can join in our discussions and most of all share your experiences in exploring new worlds, even if they be worlds that have already been discovered and explored by others!

As for your question I believe it would be too cliché  for me to state that next great adventure for mankind would be a manned mission to Mars so I would suggest another: to explore the moons of the gret gaseous planets! I might be a bit far ahead but I believe that Mankind will eventually get there and when that happens it will be trully one of the greatest adventures in the history of exploration. Unlike Mars which has been surveyed pretty closely by unmanned probes, most of these moons have still a lot to reveal, and some of them promise to be very strange worlds.

Permalink Reply by Charlie DelPino on February 8, 2012 at 10:36pm

Thank you for the warm welcome. I too am looking forward to lively discussion. 

I love and share your apparent passion for space exploration. I think that the many moons of the gas giants offer tremendous potential for all of mankind in many areas; mineral resources, the possibility of extraterrestrial life and maybe someday even colonization. The key to making all of these things possible is IMHO returning to the our moon and establishing a permanent presence there.

This all being said, I think that there are still many exciting expeditions yet to be undertaken right here on Earth. Mysteries here still abound. What say you about the Bermuda Triangle, or the hundreds of sunken ships that have yet to be located, or the many lost cities of the Mayas, or the many wild places that have never seen a footprint? Yes, I agree with you that space and all that it promises will ultimately be the final frontier; but, right now there is still much that we can explore right here at home.

These earthly adventures that I speak of are the ones that ignite my excitement and spark my imagination. They are the adventures that the men right here on this website, that the members of this very group can participate in and launch on their own and undertake in a weekend or during a vacation.

What do you think? Wouldn't it be great if the next great expedition were conceptualized, planned and executed right here by the men of this group? I think that would be awesome.

Permalink Reply by Henrique Vilhena on February 12, 2012 at 2:54pm

I agree with you and I also find very apealing the thought of this very group becoming a planing center for real life expeditions. Maybe I'll open a discussion on ideas for feasible explorations for people in this site.

Permalink Reply by Daniel Powers on February 13, 2013 at 5:37pm

I have always had the same question, I wonder what is "next". I recently heard that the Congo is about as inhospitable as a place can be, and that it has not been fully explored. I also think that our knowledge of the oceans and our diving technology is in its infantile state, we have so much to learn. But I am always trying to think of never before accomplished trips and adventures, I will love to see others' thoughts on this!