Major Exploration: Is It Worth The Risk?

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Major exploration; is it worth the risk? “There are billions of places out there that we know nothing about. The fact that we know nothing about them excites me, and I want to go out and find them. ” This quote was spoken by Brian Cox when Cox spoke this saying, it was a call to action to explore. When I read the multiple informational texts in collection 4, I learned that space and ocean exploration has brought many medical and technological advances. Although there is some risk with ocean and space exploration, there are far more benefits. My opinion on this issue is that major exploration is needed on earth because we can expand our resources and revolutionize our technology. To begin with, expanding our resources means that

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