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To: TimF who wrote (554641)	3/11/2010 9:48:30 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571810

>>Certainly no one ever tried to cross the atlantic (that we know of), except the Vikings years earlier. "That we know of" and "except the Vikings" really weaken your statement.<< I wasn't trying to make a strong statemnet, just an accurrate one. We know the vikings croosed over to Greenland and down the Atlantic coast. HUmans have usually spread out via following coastlines. <<Also the reason for the lack of crossing wasn't a general belief that you would fall off the edge of a flat world, but the risks and costs of a long sea voyage combined with strong uncertainty about getting any return.>> I think someone would have tried to find a shortcut to asia earlier if not for fear of an edge. But I really don't know and have not investigated it very far. That will be a fun thing for me tonight. i.e. Why didn't anyone travel west from europe earlier. It wasn't that far?? Don't know.