Perhaps, kendall. Maybe we're genetically predisposed to push against the envelope, as anyone who's tried to beat their personal best or build a better mousetrap would attest.

Maybe it has something to do with The Fall, of being evicted from the Garden Of Eden back at the beginning. There's a loss for ya, as Jon observed way up there. Exiled to the godless ghetto of the Universe, forced to live out from under the protective umbrella of God. And trying to scratch our way back into the Inner Sanctum.