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You are underestimating the dangers of long distance space travel. It doesn’t matter if ‘sea travel’ included people juggling flaming chainsaws, it’s still not

• somenameforme 3y ago
  No, I don't believe I am. If you have any mind, I do love discussing these topics. In particular I'd posit that the great sea explorers were setting out with far less information, far less knowledge of the dangers that awaited them, and with far less capability for reconciling those dangers. Something like scurvy, whose cure/cause wouldn't be completely understood until the early 20th century (!!!), was just an absolutely devastating issue. It could kill within months and nobody had any clue of what or why it was happening. It's just that you go to sea, your body starts rotting in some of the most painful ways imaginable, and you die relatively shortly thereafter. And that was just a part of life at sea!