Voltaire
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Post by Voltaire on Sept 19, 2003 11:46:41 GMT -5
The Mayan cities were wiped out by 712 AD. Some remote Mayan tribes survived, though. (That's how they exist even to this day.)
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Post by Slayer 411 on Oct 12, 2003 17:35:16 GMT -5
People are beging to think that the Chinese discovered America. Historian discoverd a map that was dated before colombus was born. But naturally the Indians where on american first. Also colombus didn't hit american he discovered the Indies.
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Voltaire
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Post by Voltaire on Oct 13, 2003 19:04:05 GMT -5
Even though it's getting a bit off topic, how many of you heard of Piri Reis?
He was an eccentric admiral in the Turkish navy. Around 1515 (which was well after the Spanish 'officially' found America), he made a map including North and South America. He messed up some small features, like reversing some islands in the Caribbean.
However, he also showed Anartica on the map, though it wasn't discovered until 1819. The old part is his coastlines show the exact shape of the continent, without the ice.
Modern surveyors have found Reis's maps are accurate. How a 16th century Turk was able to add a frozen continent and get the coastlines under the ice right is beyond me...
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Post by TranceRolin on Oct 16, 2003 10:30:50 GMT -5
Well THAT is kinda wierd.
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Post by Cereal Hunter on Oct 30, 2003 20:44:37 GMT -5
I think it's time for the vikings to make a comeback. They should discover a new planet or something.
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Voltaire
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Post by Voltaire on Nov 1, 2003 2:07:41 GMT -5
The problem is the Vikings and Norse countries don't have space ships. (They do have radio telescopes, but I haven't heard of many recent Scandanavian astronomical breakthroughs.) Now, the EU's space agency might prepare a manned spaceflight, but that's decades, if not centuries, away from seeing a new planet. However, before we go to other planets outside the Sol System, why not just use the local ones? (Terraforming Mars, mining the Moon, and so on.)
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Post by TranceRolin on Nov 1, 2003 10:18:08 GMT -5
What would we mine from the moon, iron?
Wait, no, we've got plenty of that here . . .
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Voltaire
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Post by Voltaire on Nov 1, 2003 19:18:23 GMT -5
There's plenty of metals on the moon other than iron, and a moon base could easily be a refueling station for other deep space missions.
As a joke, just think of what metal on the moon means. The man in the moon is a metalhead! *grown*
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Post by Violent on Nov 10, 2003 4:36:12 GMT -5
Colombos found America, its real simple, even if every other peron came first if they put no kind of claim on it, then they have no right to say there the one's that found it.
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Voltaire
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Post by Voltaire on Nov 18, 2003 15:40:41 GMT -5
Ironically, Columbus was Italian, but claimed the land for Spain. Some much for national pride...
But, then again, Span DID pay for the expendition.
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Post by TranceRolin on Nov 25, 2003 20:34:00 GMT -5
Colombos? I LOVE that yogurt!
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Post by SSPerfectCell2 on Jun 16, 2004 12:15:23 GMT -5
well i would say the vikings found the land first BUT the europeans claimed it so it is actually sorta both
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