English Post One: Exploration

What are some ways in which people throughout the ages have explored the unknown? Why have individuals devoted themselves to a life of exploration and discovery? What sacrifices does such devotion involve?

The way people explore is forever shifting and changing. Think about it: for the first people, exploration was looking under a rock or behind a tree. Later they built boats, and then airplanes, and then submarines and other deep-sea exploration thingies. Heck, we've built spaceships. You know what that says to our alien neighbors? That we really, really like to know what's going on around us.

But why? Probably for the same reason I'm practically writing an essay when you said we didn't have to. Because we can, and we want to. Some people just get this burning desire to explore, to seek out the unknown, to understand the world. And to leave their mark upon it. Those two reasons are all that many people need to put aside their family, friends, life of safety--life in general, actually--and dive headfirst into the unknown. So they can do what they love, and be remembered for it.

And can anybody tell me how to change my blog title? I lack the technological savviness :(