• XeroxCool@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I will always be amazed by the drive to cross oceans, especially in the arctic where death seems so much more likely. We still lose ships to the sea. How many additional people died simply from being off in their guessed direction by a few degrees? How many were lost at sea due to weather or not enough supplies? How many people does it take to reach and establish a viable colony? How bad did conditions have to get in the starting colony for a hundred people to say “alright, I’m gonna head out” and raft across the the unending horizon, head out for days, probably still see the land they left, still not see land ahead, and continue? Did they even have a choice by then or was it driven by the current?

    I scream, for I do not know. Thank you for coming to me Ted questionnaire

    • dragon-donkey3374@sh.itjust.works
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      2 days ago

      How did they even know if they would reach any land?

      If it were me I’d be like fuck it, I’m on land. I have no idea if there’s anymore out there so I’m staying right here.

      And humanity would be fucked.

  • Tuuktuuk@nord.pub
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    2 days ago

    I’m a Finn, meaning that part of my ancestors arrived along the arrow ending in Mongolia on this map. (And then, after we had already spread westwards, other people with different looking eyes arrived to the areas where the ancestors of Finns had once lived)

    Talk about a long way round!