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  Mario Petrinovic wrote:

>> Yes but even if it's off by 100% that's still 40 million years shy of
>> your number... without a dugout canoe in sight.
> 
>          Still it doesn't matter. There is a fossil record bias, a lot 
> of animals we will never find. We do have the outcome, today's world, 
> and we have to use logic to figure out how today's world emerged, not 
> constrain our thinking solely on fossil record, although fossil record 
> is extremely helpful.

That's called an "Argument from ignorance."

>>>          I really don't see in which way Australia would be worse 
>>> case than South America.
>>
>> Maybe it has something to do with the Wallace Line? You think that may
>> be why I brought it up? Hmm?

>          What is the "Wallace line" to you? A lot of animals never cross 
> it. How is Wallace line worse than Atlantic Ocean? In your eyes Wallace 
> line is wide all the way to Mars, while Atlantic Ocean is just a little 
> pond. Hm.

Typical narcissist...

"Wallace line? NO!  Everyone is wrong about that! No difference what
so ever. None. And I even said so!"

>> And we don't have RADAR to warn us of the proximity of other ships, and
>> we lack radio and satellite communications to call for help, just like
>> in ancient times. That, or you're being a tit. Again.

>          You really don't know those things. 

A cat sprayed in your mouth, didn't it?

Just like you spray your narcissism... "No! Can't admit ANYTHING! Can't
back off a single inch or.. or.. OR ELSE!"

>          Yes, but: "Control of the tin trade seems to have been in 
> Phoenician hands, and they kept their sources secret.". If the source 
> was nearer, it wouldn't be a secret. Probably you can determine the 
> source of unused tin, but what about tin which was smelted into bronze.

Pulling you back to the conversation:  The issue was never distance.
What you were pretending to be addressing was the fact that the ancients
rarely sailed beyond sight of land. As a narcissist, you can't concede
the point and you can't admit that you're wrong so you had to convince
yourself that it was something else you were claiming... this distance
thing.




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