XPost: alt.folklore.computers   
   From: commodorejohn@gmail.com   
      
   On Sat, 10 Jan 2026 12:14:48 -0500   
   Dan Espen  wrote:   
      
   > > 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...   
   >   
   > It's also instructive to realize how badly humans wanted to get away   
   > from their neighbors.   
      
   Man, you can't blame 'em - have you *seen* us!?   
      
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