Drive and Exploration

Drive

Drive noun - A passage cleared for public vehicular travel.

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Exploration and drive are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Exploration" instead a noun "Drive".

Nearby Words: driving, driven, driver, driveway

Exploration noun - A systematic search for the truth or facts about something.

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Drive and exploration are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Drive" instead a noun "Exploration".

emotional	emotional drive	emotional exploration
human	human drive	human exploration
nice	nice drive	nice exploration
long	long drive	long exploration
Other adjectives: similar, complete, initial, slow, little, dark, sexual, personal, new, final, exotic.

In the Spiritual Successor side, the film is a more practical and straightforward version of 1997's Contact, which also deals with an otherworldy message that triggers a drive for space exploration.

Source: Film / Interstellar
Also humanity was contacted and annexed by the Commonwealth towards the end of World War III, they had just sent out a single relativistic exploration ship when aliens offered them slipstream drive.

Source: Standard Sci-Fi History
Compare with A Talent For War, where one of the aspects of the Corsarius-type FTL drive highlighted is that it suddenly makes an extragalactic exploration journey to Andromeda possible in practice.

Source: Literature / Alex Benedict

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