Re: [CH] Chiles in Africa 2
Myron Menaker (myronm@bellsouth.net)
Sat, 19 Jun 1999 17:36:59 -0400
Well, the philosophers and mathematicians can fight over this one ad
infinitum!
If, over the course of 1000 years, 1000 rafts set sail from South
America and there are 1000's of islands in the Pacific, don't you think
a number of them would have made land-fall!?
After all, Columbus likewise did not know where the hell he was going,
and his fleet, going wherever the winds carried him, hit a tiny island!
Capsicum Rex works in strange and mysterious ways!
Myron at the beach
Peter Moss wrote:
> What has to be figured in is what is the chance of someone
> without this knowledge and navigation aid achieving this feat
> of navigating to a small island 2000 miles away in a canoe ;-)
> Not knowing the island existed in the first place. If we accept
> that all this knowledge is essential to the success of the trip
> where did the polynesians get it and why is there no evidence of
> it now if they had it. If the trip is one way how did the
> knowledge get back?
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