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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have no idea why people feel compelled to explore life at the extremes like deep sea and space when we have an absolute miracle in front of us right here in the middle of the curve where humans are uniquely adapted to live.[/quote]

That’s certainly one way to think of it, but I’m sure you enjoy air travel, driving a car, led lights, relatively inexpensive gasoline etc - all things that were made possible by crazed people pushing the limits and not taking no for an answer. I’m pretty risk averse, but I think that, along with intelligence, curiosity, opposable thumbs, and reliance on social communities, a certain amount of risk taking enabled humans to live in that “middle of the curve” that most of us enjoy.

And honestly, [b]we are not actually “uniquely adapted” to live there[/b]. Take away our technology, our clothes, our electricity, our plumbing, our transportation and most of us would probably starve or die of exposure. We took risks, invented power grids, furnaces, air conditioning, Apple Watches, and here we are. [/quote]

I think you mean here (?) and yes we are. We are uniquely adapted to live on Earth. Sure, not in extreme temperature regions and such, but we've been able to innovate and survive for ages because we're uniquely adapted (and belong) here.[/quote]

Do you live in North America? Depending on the current theories, the reason people are here is because their ancestors took an enormous risk by either walking across a land bridge into the great unknown to escape the encroaching ice, or getting in a rickety boat across a vast ocean with no guarantee of ever seeing land again. For much of human history, taking enormous risks is part of living. Millions of women walk miles to get clean water, even today. The drive that made Polynesians traverse the ocean in canoes is the same drive that made the first cosmonauts climb into a rocket and made Jonas Salk try out his polio vaccine on his own son. We have vaccines and water filtration and satellites from risk taking that help us live comfortably, but can you imagine life without those? Wouldn’t be so comfortable. [/quote]

I do live in North America and no--I can't really imagine life with all the amenities we have today but if the amenities were to suddenly vanish most of us would be fine. We'd just have to find other ways to keep surviving.

That said, there's no doubt that risks have afforded us the ability to live more comfortable lives. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding what you mean by "uniquely adapted" but what it means to me is that humans are able to live on this planet. We can breathe and exist here. Of course we need to find the right climate and adapt accordingly. And of course we need to find food and water. But we have the ability to live and thrive here. It's because of this unique adaptation that the great risk takers were able to focus on so many different things. 
We are not uniquely adapted to living in space or living in water. We aren't "space creatures" or fish.[/quote]

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