08-16-2019, 11:42 PM
(08-14-2019, 07:38 AM)Hintergrund Wrote: The Lost would have become adventurers - if there had been some place on Earth that wasn't discovered yet. But around 1900, even darkest Africa and the Poles had been discovered by the West. What does an explorer do if everything is explored? He's terribly bored.
The skies. There were many aerial adventurers among the Lost, especially in the ultimate expression of aerial derring-do, the Great War (as it was then known). Frank Luke, Manfred von Richthofen, Eddie Rickenbacker? The most infamous of the lot was Hermann Goering, Luftwaffe ace of the First World War and major war criminal of the Second. (Goering was a nasty piece of work, a classic sociopath devoid of empathy and conscience, and his fellow pilots of WWI could not stand him). If you remember The Great Waldo Pepper, you will notice such pointless stunts as wing-walking by Lost characters.
Think also of early auto racing, when it was incredibly dangerous.
Frank "Bring 'Em Back Alive" seems like a predecessor of Steve Irwin in dealing with dangerous animals.
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