It's funny and easy to forget, but there are still significant swathes of the Earth's surface (not even underwater) that are largely uncharted and unexplored in the modern day. If you have the will, the funding, and the itch, you can still just go and see places nobody else has.
— psychosomatica (@Xenoimpulse) May 20, 2025
I’ve been to one of those places.
It was in Egypt, flying on the UH-1 Hueys they had there. The pilot said we were going to do something fun that day. After flying a long way out over the Sinai desert in the vast middle of absolutely nowhere, he set the chopper down. It was at least a hundred miles from any roads, any civilization, anything; we had not seen a camel or a house for 30 or 40 minutes. The area was bounded by mountains and there was no sign of any life.
As we stepped out of the cabin into the blistering heat the pilot said, “Congratulations, gentleman and lady1, you’re standing on ground it’s likely no human has ever stood on, and if so no one has been here for many thousands of years.”
Though it was hard, I am glad I joined the army and became a paratrooper. I got to see and do things that almost no one else ever gets the chance to experience.