"Land Bridge" theory?

Mayonaze · Post by **Mayonaze** » Fri May 25, 2007 2:21 pm

It would seem to indicate that they were retired, however.

Digit · Post by **Digit** » Fri May 25, 2007 2:33 pm

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!

Post by **Minimalist** » Fri May 25, 2007 2:43 pm

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.

Digit · Post by **Digit** » Fri May 25, 2007 2:50 pm

That's not retired Min, that's dead!

Post by **Minimalist** » Fri May 25, 2007 2:55 pm

My wine glass does not make me chase it.

Rokcet Scientist · Post by **Rokcet Scientist** » Sat May 26, 2007 2:07 pm

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.

Post by **Minimalist** » Sat May 26, 2007 2:19 pm

Ask the Inuit.

Real-estate prices!

Digit · Post by **Digit** » Sat May 26, 2007 2:41 pm

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!

Sam Salmon · Post by **Sam Salmon** » Sat May 26, 2007 4:50 pm

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.

Digit · Post by **Digit** » Sun May 27, 2007 2:59 am

Don't understand that. The edge of the ice is the edge of the ice!

Rokcet Scientist · Post by **Rokcet Scientist** » Sun May 27, 2007 6:08 am

Digit wrote:
Don't understand that. The edge of the ice is the edge of the ice!

Maybe you understand a picture, Digit . . . ? LOL!

Digit · Post by **Digit** » Sun May 27, 2007 6:14 am

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.

Rokcet Scientist · Post by **Rokcet Scientist** » Sun May 27, 2007 6:59 am

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!

Digit · Post by **Digit** » Sun May 27, 2007 7:12 am

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?

Forum Monk · Post by **Forum Monk** » Sun May 27, 2007 7:14 am

I not following this too good. The ice did go south enuff to be in the midle of th atlntik. So wots the point?