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    1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 24 Jul 2020

      1/ so this morning I was ruminating on Cortez and how he burned his ships behind him to motivate his men... and I was thinking about the complexity of building a ship (even 16th century ships were super high tech, and in an "I, Pencil" sense, no one person knew how to make one).

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    2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 24 Jul 2020

      2/ and I started wondering "wait, he burned his ships, forcing himself onward...but what was the exit plan? How was he going to get back to Spain? Build a ship, from scratch, weave sales, twist rope, cast anchors, carve pulleys, make oakum and tar, make tools to chink joints...

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    3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 24 Jul 2020

      3/ no, this is flatly impossible. No one, even with 300 men, all of them experienced, could make a ship and get back to Spain. So I dove into El Wikipedia What I had not realized is that Cortez's expedian into what is now Mexico was not launched from Spain. IT WAS FROM CUBA

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    4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 24 Jul 2020

      4/ The Spanish had already colonized the Carribean and had been hanging out there for a QUARTER OF A CENTURY before the Cortez expedition. So this was not a 3,000 mile expedition. This was more like D-Day: hop off from England and cross a small pond >>>

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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 24 Jul 2020

      No one likes a pedant.

      9:01 AM - 24 Jul 2020
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