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Originally Posted by rkomar
With today's relatively easy air travel (planes and helicopters), you can get to most places on the planet in a matter of days. And with satellite coverage, no place is yet unseen. That old adventure of stumbling on an undiscovered region of Earth with bizarre inhabitants just doesn't exist anymore, and has disappeared from our dreams. I wonder if young people today get the same thrill from reading those old novels that we older people did, or if it just falls flat for them?
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I'm 35 so I don't know if that qualifies me as younger anymore
but I always have, and still, get a kick out of reading about undiscovered locations/animals/etc. Science still discovers boatloads of new species and fossils every year so the thought that there's something out there that humans haven't laid eyes on yet isn't so alien to me.