Imagine the points in the wilderness we haven't truly explored due to lack of safe passage. Valleys or caves or even just particularly dense forest. I am not sure we would discover much new, but I do enjoy the fact that we haven't been everywhere. The internet can make it feel like all possible exploration has been done, reduced to datapoints and photos.

We couldn't find a 777 plane in an ocean. Maybe technology made us feel the earth is small.

The area of the Pacific is 386,900,000,000 times larger than the wing area of a 777.

Just as well it went missing in the much smaller Indian Ocean then!

A surprising amount of that ocean was searched in some way or other in the year following MH370's disappearance (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370#/...), but pieces of plane are still pretty small in comparison.

And given what we do know (various wing bits have washed up on beaches), those wings broke apart on impact.

We are talking area, we didn’t consider depth. We should change the idiom to “searching 777 in pacific”

We can barely dig deep enough in earth before our equipment either melt or explode due to high pressure. Yeah there is a lot of exploring left right here on earth. I think the current record is 12km and earth diameter is 12,000km.

Not all places on Earth are built the same: the atmospheric density at the top of K2 is closer to that of space than that at sea level.