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Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 2:21 pm
by Mayonaze
It would seem to indicate that they were retired, however.
Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 2:33 pm
by Digit
Apparently May the Great Auk was edible, though not particularly palatable, but that wasn't the point, the point was that they proved there was land to the West. The people weren't simply setting off into the sunset with no idea about land.
Leif Erikson, when heading west was only following others, the same for CC, the Potuguese had been fishing off the Grand Banks for years without actually settling in America but they would have talked about their experiences.
Regardless, DNA shows that Europeans did get to NA thousands of years ago and it sure wasn't via Pan Am!
Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 2:43 pm
by Minimalist
Mayonaze wrote:BTW, when I retire I'd like to stay in Alaska - my wife says I'm not rational. This proves that the suspected Auk-chasers also weren't married!
I'm retired and I don't feel like chasing anything.
Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 2:50 pm
by Digit
That's not retired Min, that's dead!
Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 2:55 pm
by Minimalist
My wine glass does not make me chase it.
Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 2:07 pm
by Rokcet Scientist
Mayonaze wrote:
The calorie exchange implied by the Auk theory seems like a bust. All that effort to walk, design/build/operate a boat, and just stay warm to chase a semi-sedentary bird through an arctic environment when all they had to do was just head south? Assuming thet these people were rational, what could have been keeping them from going south? Competition?
Ask the Inuit.
Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 2:19 pm
by Minimalist
Ask the Inuit.
Real-estate prices!
Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 2:41 pm
by Digit
In the days when the Inuit normally used Seal skin boats they travelled along the edge of the ice, the pack ice and sludge helping to dampen sea swells, then pulled the boat onto the ice for the night.
Difficult to do in mid Atlantic!
Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 4:50 pm
by Sam Salmon
Digit wrote:In the days when the Inuit normally used Seal skin boats they travelled along the edge of the ice, the pack ice and sludge helping to dampen sea swells, then pulled the boat onto the ice for the night.
Difficult to do in mid Atlantic!
Not if the ice was a lot further south than it now is-and it was.
Posted: Sun May 27, 2007 2:59 am
by Digit
Don't understand that. The edge of the ice is the edge of the ice!
Posted: Sun May 27, 2007 6:08 am
by Rokcet Scientist
Digit wrote:
Don't understand that. The edge of the ice is the edge of the ice!
Maybe you understand a picture, Digit . . . ? LOL!
Posted: Sun May 27, 2007 6:14 am
by Digit
Yes picture understood. But how does the position of the ice edge effect the point I made?
I said that the Inuit followed the edge of the ice, according to the Inuit, they didn't say they only followed it if it was in a certain point relative to the pole for example.
Posted: Sun May 27, 2007 6:59 am
by Rokcet Scientist
Digit wrote:
Yes picture understood. But how does the position of the ice edge effect the point I made?
I said that the Inuit followed the edge of the ice, according to the Inuit, they didn't say they only followed it if it was in a certain point relative to the pole for example.
Yes, and lampposts are generally made of steel too.
And, BTW Mr. English degree: "But how does the position of the ice edge effect the point I made?" ought to read "But how does the position of the ice edge
Affect the point I made?" in proper English!
Posted: Sun May 27, 2007 7:12 am
by Digit
So I made a mistake, don't you ever?
And like our earlier debate? you haven't answered the question.
By the way Rocket not Rokcet or are you starting your own language?
Posted: Sun May 27, 2007 7:14 am
by Forum Monk
I not following this too good. The ice did go south enuff to be in the midle of th atlntik. So wots the point?