{"id":13401,"date":"2015-09-11T03:17:18","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T03:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yaabot.com\/?p=13401"},"modified":"2024-02-23T13:57:07","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T08:27:07","slug":"antarctica-holds-multiple-lessons-for-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entropymag.co\/antarctica-holds-multiple-lessons-for-humanity\/","title":{"rendered":"Antarctica Holds Multiple Lessons For Humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Antarctica has long remained an isolated continent. Textbooks in school don’t tell us much about it, and only a few careers involve anything to do with the icy continent<\/span>. For a long time, it has conjured only one visualisation to us \u2013 plain white. Plain white is not far away from the truth. Antarctica has always a mystery to humankind. The continent is pure, both metaphorically and figuratively. There is much more to Antarctica than ice and water. In fact, the continent holds some valuable lessons for humanity – lessons that’d go a long way in ensuring our future, both on Earth & among the stars.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n Antarctica wasn’t discovered until the nineteenth century. This isn’t surprising. We didn’t begin launching satellites until the late 1960s, and it was pretty hard for ships go all the way down south. Nevertheless, there were beliefs about a ‘Terra Australis’ right from 1<\/span>st<\/sup><\/span> century AD – as a vast continent in the far southern corners of planet Earth, that equalizes the northern lands. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\nWhat was Antarctica before?<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n