Matt Walsh

It's been like 70 years.

Can you give it a minute here?

It's been 70 years.

That's nothing.

That might as well be 70 seconds.

That's nothing.

That's barely, I mean, that's not even a human lifetime.

The space age of exploration has lasted 70 years.

If previous generations had given up on their explorations after 70 years, nothing ever would have been discovered.

The age of sail, the age of oceanic discovery lasted for centuries.

It lasted for longer than the United States has existed as a country.

Columbus discovered the Americas in 1492.

Europeans would not discover, say, Hawaii, which is the last state that was entered into the Union, wouldn't discover it, wouldn't discover that the landmass exists at all for 300 years after Columbus.

300 years later, they're still sailing around on boats that look almost the same and finding massive plots of land that they didn't know about.

And there are places on Earth today that we still have.

There are places currently on Earth still that we've never seen.

Deep in the Amazon, down at the bottom of the ocean.

And so, you know, we've basically been doing the space thing for like 10 seconds and everyone's already looking at their watch.

Hey, what?

What's going on?