The more novelty there is, the more adventurous it is. The first climb of Mount Everest was no doubt a grander adventure than being one of hundreds each year today. Space is the final frontier, an untapped expanse of never-before experienced firsts.
And come on, we have plenty of great astronaut quotes: "One small step for a man, One giant leap for mankind" ring any bells?
you described bragging rights and record chasers not novelty.
Novelty is exactly the opposite of what you said.
If you have never been on the Everest (or whatever activity really) and you experience it for the first time your sensation will be the same regardless of you being #1 or #75000 in the global ranking, because it will be the first time for you.
Let’s talk practical examples, how many people have reached 120mph on a motorcycle? Millions if not billions, but when YOU do it for the first time it’s not like you are busy thinking of the millions of people who did it before you, you just have a good time.
Fuck. And I mean fuck as a verb, should we not have sex anymore because we are not the first humans to ever have sex? The first people should have never fucked because they were not the first organisms to fuck?
People who say holding their kid after they are born is the best moment of their lives, they feel on cloud 9 even though they are human #11,477,764,778 to experience such feeling
At the end of the day space enthusiasts should test their belief and go live in Antartica for some 8 months during the winter and see for themselves.
And that’s not even a true test because Antartica is the Garden of Eden compared to space
You've gotten a little lost. Adventure is not just a synonym for "something fun to do". Sex, in the most vanilla sense of the word, isn't an adventure. It's not particularly risky, and it's not novel at all. Holding a baby is not an adventure at all.
The "global novelty" aspect of adventure (aside from the "personal novelty") comes from the fact that you're entering the unknown. The adventurous nature of an activity is diminished if it's already common knowledge what you can expect from the experience.
And come on, we have plenty of great astronaut quotes: "One small step for a man, One giant leap for mankind" ring any bells?