To extend the NASA metaphor, the Portuguese' base in India facilitated even more distant conquests, such as Malacca and Macau. 1/2
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Had it gone like NASA, the Portuguese would have needed to bum rides from the Spanish to get to Madeira 50 years later. 2/2
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It was disappointing that there wasn't more of an explanation of the inspiration behind the wide swing towards Brazil to get around
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The cape of good hope. Crowley's book was very informative & if there was more documentation, I think he'd have found it
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The basic idea seems to have come from Dias or his pilot. Hugging the African coast all the way wasn't working.
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Also re: NYT review, figuring out trade winds cannot just be summed up by mere ferocity
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Quite a shift in Chinese policy from 500 years ago. Crowley contrasts the Portuguese and the Chinese here. 1/3pic.twitter.com/hf2j1SOLDP
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Zheng He also features in Kim Stanley Robinson's alternate history of earth absent modern Europeans.https://twitter.com/dpinsen/status/842956277600980992 …
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He didn't so much explore but displayed military might. The project was so expensive it eventually got cancelled and the ships burned.
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Unlike Columbus Jorge Alvarez actually completed his mission and took great risks doing that. But all he got was a statue in Macau.
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NASA number one goal during Obama's administration outreach to Muslims. So now I'm supposed trust global warming is man made?
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Revisionism never sleeps.
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i was just googling about this today. were caravels awesome? (like a Sid Meiers Civ game)? was it our Spengler-noted drive for the infinite?
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Teve muito pouco de R&D e ir pra Índia só foi possibilidade séria a partir de 1480. Colégio de Sagres nunca existiu.
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And unlike NASA they were actually first there.
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I still wonder how US decided to drop Mil-Std 's in favour of COTS . That decision on its own, may have put Silicon Valley on that pedestal.
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