CURIOSITY should be in our SPIRIT to find new OPPORTUNITY for a hopeful future of mankind

History Of Exploration

The everlasting quest for exploration is in our DNA since the origin of humans in Africa two hundred thousand years ago and we all descended from that small handful group of people with explorer’s gene who made their way out of Africa and spread human race by colonizing the rest of the world in spite of geographic problem with lack of technology back then. Since then with the technological advancement throughout the centuries brave explorers traveled the globe and beyond to extend our knowledge like 14th century’s Christopher Columbus to the first person to walk on moon Neil Armstrong.

Future in Space

‘I think the human race has no future if it doesn’t go into space’- Stephen Hawking. The search is already begun for possible life into the space with telescopes like Hubble & Kepler discovering potential earth like planets few light years away but interstellar mission is long way to go with current technology, but as recently Stephen Hawking announced we can reach our nearest star system, Alpha Centauri (4.3 light years away) within 20 years with project ‘Breakthrough Starshot’ which current fastest spacecraft would take 30000 years . But our current technology is sufficient enough to take us to our nearest possible home in our solar system, Planet Mars.

Mars Rover Quote

Mars exploration is the first step to the new era of human space exploration before reaching nearby stars to explore Earth like exoplanets in future to understand fraction of many mysteries of the universe. If you read this post title again which is a very inspiring quote indeed. The fascinating thing about it is this thought is originated from the names of three successful rovers NASA sent for Mars exploration which are Spirit (MER-A), Opportunity (MER-B) and Curiosity (MSL) to investigate the habitability of Mars. For centuries Mars has held humankind of imagination and we have come closer than ever when NASA sent these rovers to unravel some of the red planet secrets and inspired us to envision the possibility of colonizing Mars .

 Inspiration

The above quote is perfect example of how science can inspire us in fact I will say as we are passionate to explore the Mars, all the universe is conspiring in helping us to achieve it or a exploration is an attempt by universe to understand universe itself. The same way as Physicist Michio Kaku’s quote ‘A physicist is an attempt by an atom to understand itself, as physicists are made of atoms ’. Where both atom & universe has their own different theories of physics, microscopic atoms governed by quantum mechanics whereas macroscopic universe governed by general relativity because theory of everything has not yet been discovered.

Childlike Curiosity

‘We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library’ - Albert Einstein, on our understanding about universe, but as we know children’s have a limitless curiosity to seek knowledge for the new things which might have inspired NASA to name for recent rover who is exploring Mars terrain to develop more understanding believing that it may hold keys to our future and past i.e. origin of our life.

Hopeful Goal

Hence Curiosity should be in our spirit to find new opportunity for a hopeful future of mankind and Mars is our first step towards the future of exploration, our search for knowledge with ultimate goal of understanding singularity as well as new frontiers of space from Mars to the edge of the Universe.

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