10-12-2021, 01:34 AM
(10-12-2021, 12:26 AM)fifteenth Wrote: ...but then, that gets blown up by the short trade route between Africa and South America. The size of the land masses south of the equator, the seafaring exploits of ancient Polynesians...the connectivity of Adrica>Oceania>South America>Africa. The distances on their maps wouldn't make sense.
My wife and I lived in rural Arkansas during the moon landing in 1969. Those who actually believed men hand landed on the moon were considered fools my many, especially older ones.
"Don't you know all that stuff on TV is made up?" they would reason. I quickly learned there was no believable comeback for that.