ENG: Introductory Post

Hello everyone, David here, and this is the Engineering/Physics part of MEEP, in which I'll talk about space stuff, physics stuff, and stuff stuff, generally anything that doesn't involve pure mathematics or economics.

Humans have a valuable characteristic that is intrinsic to our beings: we are natural explorers. We have been driven by knowledge and discovering new things, which is something truly beautiful. We were created to break boundaries, go beyond limits and expectations to achieve true scientific greatness. It's literally what we have been doing for a big part of our history, we thrive in discovering and revolutionizing new things, whatever that might be, but one thing is sure: we are not static people.

For years and years we explored what we could explore, our land, the place we live, forever our home (or so we thought), mother Earth. Between its crevices and twists and turns, we found ores, better ores that allowed us to dig deeper down our planet. We discovered how to grow things and make our own food, which made us settle down and appreciate some other looked over aspects of the universe, such as those glowy things up there, which apparently serve as a good... map?

Eventually, our first major boundary was broken: the Ocean. The big blue. What lies out there beyond the horizon? What is there after the world ends? Questions that brave men and women decided to go after, dedicating and even giving their lives for such... and eventually, we mastered it. The ocean was ours.

More recently, however, the main focus of exploration has been in a very hostile yet intriguing place, weirdly big but beautifully magnificent at its variety of arts and creations: space! In 1961, the first human went to space, and by 1969 we arrived at the Moon, which had been our neighbor for all our history so far... and this exploration continues today.

With plans to touch down on Mars within the next 4 years, this is an exciting generation to live in. Space exploration is the ultimate scientifical breakthrough in my opinion. People like Copernicus, Newton, Marie Curie, Galileo, Einstein, and some other genius minds allow for theories and discoveries of the world we live in, that sum up in a beautiful topic called Physics! These... actually... work, which is the craziest part. We build these models and rules that, conveniently, all things must follow, which has gotten us a long way down this crazy world of knowledge and science.

This is what drives me, to honor those who precede us and be the ones who continue our inherent legacy of broadening our understanding of everything. I guess this is why I like History so much too, might post about that as well.

Welp, this was it for my first post folks, either this week or next I'm gonna post about the history of the Space Shuttle Program and the actual Space Shuttle, how it works, etc, so stay tuned for that. Hope you enjoy your weekend lads! Stay safe out there!