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Certainly fots the coast

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 14 Aug 2016 23:00:30 +0000

In reply to Speaking of anachronisms:

Certainly fots the coast theory over landbridge. Were they always with a hole in the middle? Free coffee?

Speaking of anachronisms:

CVille Dem — Sun, 14 Aug 2016 21:38:15 +0000

In reply to Don't go anachronistic on me

Speaking of anachronisms: Starbucks came WAY after Dunkin' Donuts -- maybe THAT is how they crossed!

Don't go anachronistic on me

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 14 Aug 2016 20:59:10 +0000

In reply to I never fell for the land

Don't go anachronistic on me - they didn't get the Caribou chain until long after Starbucks' success. Yes, indigenous people had to deal with gamey (though they may have thought of chewy as a plus). Watch the Revenant - it was no picnic - and those folks had a few guns. Siberiads? not so many - 2nd Amendment guarantees woefully lacking where they came from.

I never fell for the land

CVille Dem — Sun, 14 Aug 2016 20:42:40 +0000

In reply to The First Americans May Not Have Arrived How We Think They Did

I never fell for the land-bridge theory. I know for a fact that they all rode on friendly swimming dinosaurs. The above comments do make me wonder though -- does Pericles know the difference between an Elk (chewy and gamey tasting) and Caribou (so delicious that it is the complete diet of some Inuits)? Never mind. I'm sure he does.

Your explanation for the cost

moat — Sun, 14 Aug 2016 20:26:12 +0000

In reply to The land bridge got bogged

Your explanation for the cost overruns involved with this project makes sense in detail as change orders but does not actually explain why the delays required millennia more time than the proposal to populate the other hemisphere with humans had first specified.

The land bridge got bogged

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 14 Aug 2016 20:21:31 +0000

In reply to Very interesting.

The land bridge got bogged down in cost overruns and ended up being mockingly referred to as "The Bridge to Nowhere", though on a clear day you could see Alaska from there. The planned interstate never got built since all available money was diverted to North Shelf pipeline development, local corruption plus Native American support resources for the soon-to-exist Inuit. So the coastal route was the best bet, even though in parts the fisheries had been definitely impacted by oil spills, so travellers had to live on berries, the occasional elk, and for those with enough money, sandwiches and coffee at Subway (plus MREs from the grunts among them) - hardly the optimum diet for that climate. In the end, the migration lasted much longer than expected due to those who were in no hurry to join the lower 48, a large percentage of stoners & survivalists, and the beginnings of what would become a full-bore snowmobile craze.

Very interesting.

moat — Sun, 14 Aug 2016 19:42:10 +0000

In reply to The First Americans May Not Have Arrived How We Think They Did

Interesting article.
It suggests that the people who were willing to carry their boats as circumstances required got over the bridge before the crowd who relied on campgrounds and game that leapt into the cooking pot.