With regard to contacting aliens, based on his recent commentary, it’s a good thing Mark Buchanan — physicist and scientist — was not on the ship with Ferdinand Magellan or Christopher Columbus, or traveling with Lewis and Clark or Daniel Boone.
People on the European continent would never have sailed upon unknown foreboding seas or ventured westward across a massive North American landscape fraught with dangers real and imagined, but these curious adventurers did just that. They traveled headlong into a world filled with what others had never seen, discovered what was previously unknown, expanded the knowledge for those who followed. I don’t for a minute think that there was never fear or trepidation in their hearts, but thankfully it was overcome.
The mindset of these sometimes impetuous seekers led to an expansive, physically wondrous world; the next step is what is beyond this small, comfortable blue-green orb. Onward.
— Mike Gogolowski
Anchorage
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