XPost: alt.folklore.computers   
   From: tnp@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 09/01/2026 21:24, John Ames wrote:   
   > On 9 Jan 2026 20:36:38 GMT   
   > rbowman  wrote:   
   >   
   >>> That *is* an intriguing question - AFAIK the evidence we have is   
   >>> scant, but it's certainly a fascinating notion. Dunno if we'll ever   
   >>> get any solid answers, but you gotta wonder...   
   >>   
   >> Heyerdahl was disliked by the academics but he had an embarrassing   
   >> habit of building boats and going places that shouldn't have been   
   >> reachable in their theories.   
   >   
   > Certainly can't accuse him of not putting his money where his mouth was.   
   >   
   >> Before Doggerland sank anybody could wander over without having to   
   >> build a coracle.   
   >   
   > It's truly amazing how much of the world was walkable in the Ice Age;   
   > doesn't explain *every* place humans ended up (it's absolutely mind-   
   > boggling to consider how far back the Pacific islands were settled,)   
   > but it absolutely made a whole lotta places readily accessible for a   
   > good long while. Makes you wonder, too, how many of the various quasi-   
   > Atlantean legends in northwest Europe are really mutated folk memory   
   > from a *staggeringly* long time ago...   
   >   
   Yes.   
      
   125m of sea level rise in a few  thousand years...and a global   
   temperature rise of   
   up to 10°C   
      
   Odd how that didn't 'destroy the planet'...   
      
      
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