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“The only home we’ve ever known. The Pale blue dot.” – Carl Sagan. Everything that ever was and ever will be will have originated from that small speck of space dust wandering aimlessly in the vast cosmos. Only until man put something into space did we comprehend just how small we really were. That thing man put into space? Its name is Voyager. That spacecraft has expanded our knowledge and technology by leaps and bounds. It was created for the sole purpose of exploration and discovery. If it did so much for us, why don’t we have more? Well, it’s an expensive contraption and even though machines like it do great and wonderful things, the people who put them there don’t get much funding. So if we were to give them more funding, what else might we learn …show more content…
The reality of that situation is that the Earth is almost entirely explored. When people speak of exploring the rest of Earth they speak mostly about the ocean, which has only been explored about 5 percent (Kitch). While that seems like a small number, what hasn’t been explored is the ocean deep, which has little to no impact on the rest of the planet because its floor is barren and lifeless sludge. In comparison, the universe has only been explored by about a whopping 0 percent. No surprise there because the universe is so large, but even then data is being collected on it at the speed of light all the time. So even though the universe is so large, it’s being explored rapidly as is, imagine if it was being explored even more, what would we learn then? Forbes, a leading media company, states in their article “Why Don’t We Spend More on Exploring the Oceans, Rather Than On Space Exploration”, “We don’t spend more time/money exploring the ocean because it’s expensive, difficult, and uninspiring. We stare up at the stars and dream of reaching them, but few people look off the side of a boat and wish they could go down