<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Nov 9, 2025 at 11:03 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg5768374135033110990"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_5768374135033110990WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></span>When I was first told Columbus discovered the Americas, I knew that was false: there were already people here, plenty of them. </i></font></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b>Columbus<span class="gmail_default" style=""> is justifiably famous not because he was the first but because he was the LAST person to discover the Americas, he discovered it so well that nobody needed to discover it again. </span></b></font></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b><br></b></font></span></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="">John K Clark </span> </b></font></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg5768374135033110990"><br>
</div></blockquote></div></div>