Re:Barack Obama: America Will Take the Giant Leap to Mars
by CWuestefeld on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @01:08PM
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Re: coconuts, I'll beg off on having copied that list from a web source without cross-checking.
Re: gold, sure, but they didn't have any inkling about Sutter's Mill, etc. It clearly existed in some amounts, but they had no idea they'd find vast untapped veins.
Of course there are active theories that coconuts may have migrated or been transported by swallows to Western Europe.
Also gold was known to be in the New World according to Columbus on his initial voyage.
>The convenience of the harbors in this island, and the excellence of the rivers, in volume and salubrity, surpass human belief, unless on should see them. In it the trees, pasture-lands and fruits different much from those of Juana. Besides, this Hispana abounds in various kinds of species, gold and metals. https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/exploration/res...