Did Lewis and Clark discover the Northwest Passage?
‘Find’ or ‘discover’? You could take twelve guys and just suggest they hike west until they hit the ocean and just return, and they would have achieved the same results. I think Lewis and Clark did have unusual leadership qualities that enabled the entire team to survive and return....where statistically...the odds weren’t in favor of the whole team making it.
In the case of Kepler-452b, when we do finally get there (I’m assuming it’ll happen within 150 years)....I suspect we will find a dinosaur-heavy planet, with few human species there, and this will bring up this odd comparison by the experts.
Earth is ‘lucky’ in some form of way with various meteors which hit and helped to kill off the dinosaurs and enable men to gain the upper hand.
Then the question will be asked....will we help to eradicate Kepler-452b dinosaurs....to allow their human species to thrive and get ahead in 20,000 years? Naturally, this will be the pro-dino camp and the anti-dino camp here on Earth will debate this to the ninth degree. If you think we have arguments now on things...just imagine this type of debate going on and how you’d reach some conclusion.