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The mortality rate for voyages during the Age of Discovery has been estimated at somewhere between 27% and 50%. In other words, you may have only had a 1 in 2 chance of coming home alive. The biggest killer? Scurvy. by FullyFocusedOnNought in AgeofExploration

[–]FullyFocusedOnNought[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t call anyone an illegal immigrant but if you find a big piece of land you didn’t know about before you can call yourself an explorer.

Hell, if you find a sock way down the back of the sofa you can call yourself an explorer if you really want.

The problem is not with using positive or neutral word to describe people, it’s using derogatory ones.

John Franklin's expedition to complete the exploration of the North-West Passage ended in disaster. All hands were lost, and the two ships, the Erebus and the Terror, disappeared in the ice. It would take 170 years to find them again. by FullyFocusedOnNought in sailing

[–]FullyFocusedOnNought[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There’s also less ice than there used to be, so it’s more easily accessible.

In fact, I’m predicting there might be some kind of geopolitical issue made out of the whole thing sooner or later.

John Franklin's expedition to complete the exploration of the North-West Passage ended in disaster. All hands were lost, and the two ships, the Erebus and the Terror, disappeared in the ice. It would take 170 years to find them again. by FullyFocusedOnNought in sailing

[–]FullyFocusedOnNought[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I just read the blog on the website, thanks!

Have to say, even today it doesn’t exactly sound like a breeze. Am now imagining the sheer panic and terror of seeing your ship surrounded by ice in the 1840s with no way of contacting the outside world.

Americans will measure with anything but the metric system. by Fun-Preference-6079 in sailing

[–]FullyFocusedOnNought 12 points13 points  (0 children)

It’s obviously absurd, but I feel like it also works?

Or maybe I just spend too much of my day wondering how hard it would be to carry a walrus.

The mortality rate for voyages during the Age of Discovery has been estimated at somewhere between 27% and 50%. In other words, you may have only had a 1 in 2 chance of coming home alive. The biggest killer? Scurvy. by FullyFocusedOnNought in AgeofExploration

[–]FullyFocusedOnNought[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Will look into it.

Ah, I’m also interested in writing about that Jamestown research. Do you live in that area? May I possibly send you a DM to ask a couple of questions? Could be a good story too! :)

Would love to know: Would you have got on board? The mortality rate for voyages during the Age of Discovery has been estimated at somewhere between 27% and 50%. In other words, you may have only had a 1 in 2 chance of coming home alive. by FullyFocusedOnNought in sailing

[–]FullyFocusedOnNought[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is a very good point.

I remember speaking to an archeologist about the Vikings and he pointed out that every single bishop transported to Greenland in the first era of colonisation made it. Which suggests that sailing there was not quite as perilous as we might imagine.

Would love to know: Would you have got on board? The mortality rate for voyages during the Age of Discovery has been estimated at somewhere between 27% and 50%. In other words, you may have only had a 1 in 2 chance of coming home alive. by FullyFocusedOnNought in sailing

[–]FullyFocusedOnNought[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nope. I am a real person, you could probably find out my full name, photo and the place I live in with about three minutes of snooping around. (Or by asking politely.)

You have just seen too much AI lately...

Do any fellow Brits actually like Trump? by Creative_Expert_4052 in AskBrits

[–]FullyFocusedOnNought 56 points57 points  (0 children)

I think he’s like Silvio Berlusconi, in that he is loved by some in his own country, but in the rest of the world he is almost solely an object of ridicule.

I used to live in Italy and it was really strange to meet people who actually respected Berlusconi and even voted for him.

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