does it rhyme with bacism
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everyone shits themselves over St Brendan possibly sailing across the Atlantic circa 500 AD in a small curragh but somehow it is just vastly beyond the realm of possibility that hmmmm maybe others did this before on the Pacific????
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like yeah okay it was considerably earlier than this but humans still had boats for a long time at that stage.
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Replying to @lenofi @HalstedMedieval
I'm just...you guys humans are actually smart about inventing shit, it's sort of how we got where we got.
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also this idea that the oceans/seas are a barrier and not in fact incredibly efficient for travel and also food...
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @lenofi
historians: "the roman empire was only possible because the mediterranean linked everything!" also historians: "THE PACIFIC IS UNCROSSABLE"
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Replying to @HalstedMedieval @AdmiralHip
the pacific TERRIFIES me tbh but yes this is exactly what people in our fields say
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Replying to @lenofi @AdmiralHip
i mean me too but deep oceans are just like blanket terrifying WHAT LURKS BENEATH
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as someone who has been swimming in the Pacific in Ecuador...yes. It is scary. It's also awesome.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @lenofi
I've been swimming in california but that feels like the bb pacific because it's kind of... tamed? I guess? By all the super manicured beaches Also impossible to be scared when there are sea otters to hang out with
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Replying to @HalstedMedieval @AdmiralHip
i dont think i could EVER fly over it so my NZ and Oz dreams will rely on me going the land-hopping way
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