[ExI] Gender-Neutral Side Note

[spike at rainier66.com]

From: John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> 
Sent: Saturday, 8 November, 2025 4:15 AM
To: spike at rainier66.com
Cc: ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>; Ben Zaiboc <ben at zaiboc.net>
Subject: Re: [ExI] Gender-Neutral Side Note

 

 

 

On Fri, Nov 7, 2025 at 10:00 AM <spike at rainier66.com <mailto:spike at rainier66.com> > wrote:

 

> Columbus had no way of knowing about the Pacific ocean, but he was a sailor, so he knew approximately the circumference of the globe.

 

>…I don't think Columbus knew the circumference of the globe nearly as well as the ancient Greeks did, if he did he would've never sailed west and the king of Spain didn't either or he would've never given the money to make that voyage possible. Suppose north and South America did not exist and there was nothing but ocean between Portugal and India… John K Clark

 

 

Sure.  But what if there was continuous land between the East Indies (India) and the West Indies (Caribbean Islands.)  There was (kinda) during the ice age: a human could walk from the East Indies to the West Indies.  No one in Europe knew for sure.  Someone had to take the risk to find out.  Columbus did.  He was the Elon Musk of his day.

 

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