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Columbus is not a measuring stick for human exploration... Nevertheless I think some would be flabberghasted that such a leap fizzled out but some would wonder
by datameta 3y ago
Columbus is not a measuring stick for human exploration... Nevertheless I think some would be flabberghasted that such a leap fizzled out but some would wonder why we went in the first place if not to gather resources.
- rsynnott 3y agoI think they’d have gotten the Cold War dick measuring aspect, or at least the Victorians would have; a lot of 19th century colonialism was of that general form (in particular see Germany in Africa).