XPost: alt.folklore.computers   
   From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com   
      
   On 1/10/26 10:23, Scott Lurndal wrote:   
   > The Natural Philosopher  writes:   
   >> 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'...   
   >   
   > Apples are not equal to oranges.   
      
   	Don't worry about the planet.  With or without life on it Earth   
   will take care of itself just as does Venus or Mercury.  The risk is   
   to the last few hundred years of human progress(?). We might   
   manage to revert to barbarism if the temperature does not go too   
   high for our systems by which I mean the whole means by which   
   your body maintains homeostasis which includes food systems,   
   medical systems, transport systems.  I suspect without clear   
   evidence that we may hit another bottleneck and suffer large   
   losses of population and genetic diversity human and otherwise.   
      
   	bliss - always the cheery optimist...   
      
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