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Re: Navigational reinvention
From: Jared Sherman
Date: 2004 Nov 26, 13:57 -0500
From: Jared Sherman
Date: 2004 Nov 26, 13:57 -0500
Trevor- <> I don't see why a crossing of 20+ miles should amaze anyone, even in 600KBC. Someone gets washed out to sea by a flood, grabs a log, floats in terror for 36 hours and swims ashore. If one of the opposite sex has the same adventure within the decade...there's a colony. Applies for humans, proto-humans, critters as well. There are massive floods in the Gulf of Mexico coasts of many Latin American nations, people are washed out to see by the hundreds over the years. Heck, our own USCG even picked up a fisherman in an inner tube, still fishing, 10-12 miles offshore here some years ago. (They asked him why he was still fishing, and he gave them a nasty look and asked "What ELSE could I do?" ) Boats? Sure, there have been peoples *expelled* or simply off course since people knew how to float on logs. Twenty miles just doesn't seem like a real barrier to me.
