Imagine being an explorer. Like a real one. Back when we hadn’t yet discovered it all. What an insane trip to start somewhere and have no idea where you are going or what you will find.

Now we have pictures of every location. Instruments that measure the depths of the sea. Monitors that scan the sky and tell us the approximate location of anything and everything. It wasn’t always this way.

What was it like for an explorer to acquire a ship, assemble a crew, get some food, and take off? How did it feel to leave land behind and be unsure of when you might see it again?

And what kind of people would even want to try this? Who were these people that were willing to risk it all and understand they may never see anyone in their hometown ever again?

This is an era that we can probably never understand as our lives are so dramatically different. Only a few hundred years have gone by - although it might as well be a few millennia. The world is a different place now than it was for Magellan and the other wild dudes who circumnavigated the world.

Opening song “Chiptune Fighter" written by SCOREWIZARDS.

All production by Cody Maxwell.

Opening graphic assets by motionstate.

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