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> Did you notice I mentioned celestial angles? That predates the invention of an accurate time piece as a nav technique. And yet the pedophile Cook leaned heav
by markdown 8y ago
> Did you notice I mentioned celestial angles? That predates the invention of an accurate time piece as a nav technique.
And yet the pedophile Cook leaned heavily on a Polynesian navigator who navigated without such tech.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupaia_(navigator) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupaia_(navigator)
- markdown 8y agoI suppose the downvotes are because you hadn't heard about their pedophilia. Google it. Cook's botanist/scientist on his second voyage, Georg Forster, wrote about how they often took girls as young as 9 and 10. They argued that this was acceptable because "Polynesian girls were sooner ripe".