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Re:Underwater Exploring Is Banned in Brazil (1985) by colechristensen on Saturday April 27, 2019 @11:59AM (#19766148)
If you have navigation technology and knowledge it switches from being luck to routine. Accurate clocks and maps of ocean currents make vast ocean distances much smaller.
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Re:Underwater Exploring Is Banned in Brazil (1985) by skrebbel on Saturday April 27, 2019 @12:18PM (#19766247)
So, your point is that the Romans could've easily crossed to the Americas because they had maps of the Atlantic's currents?
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