1 Introduction Why do we explore? Why do we need to know what lies over the horizon? In the beginning we did it because we had to – to find food or shelter, for example. Later we explored for the challenge. When the mountaineer George Mallory was asked why he wanted to climb Mount Everest, his reply was simply, “Because it’s there.”
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