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World travelers (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There's a current originating in Indian ocean flowing south of Africa to the gulf of Mexico, before proceeding north east between Iceland and Great Britain. It's why Scandinavia is so much warmer than the same latitude in the Americas. I'm 55 north in Denmark, and have hardly seen snow this winter, meanwhile Edmonton in Canada is 2° south of that.

Coconuts bobbing around the south of Africa is pretty wild, but not implausible.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Native Americans and Polynesians Met Around 1200 A.D.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Great article. It's worth remembering that DNA is only evidence that someone banged, and I imagine there's a fair amount of contact that goes on before that.

A North American group from Colombia

I hope this person just meant to say "Native American", and doesn't really think Colombia is in North America.

(sorry, I've spent the last week proofreading articles...)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

North America of course being any part of the Americas in the Northern hemisphere --

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The funny thing is, I can't even tell if you're being serious or joking...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Even the Columbia part is weird. Should have been "present-day Columbia" or similar.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Yeah, they also varied between spelling it "Columbia" and "Colombia" in the same article.

But I get it, there's not a lot of money in popular science publishing so they may not even have a copy editor, at least those kinds of stories are still getting popularized and not just 'ancient aliens'.