SpaceX test flight of Starship SN-5 [video]

Re:SpaceX test flight of Starship SN-5 [video] by throwaway0a5e on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @11:40AM (#24062030)

Africa was in Europe's back yard yet when they got the opportunity they colonized the Americas. Colonizing a formerly unexplored place where nobody has yet laid claim has a lot of appeal (and this time we (probably) don't have to kill/displace the natives to do it).

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Re:SpaceX test flight of Starship SN-5 [video] by pfdietz on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @03:04PM (#24064317)

Europeans were kept out of Africa by disease.

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Re:SpaceX test flight of Starship SN-5 [video] by mschuster91 on Thursday August 06, 2020 @02:57AM (#24068732)

I'd rather say the Europeans were kept out of Africa because of nowhere near European levels of valuable resources (think farmland, wood) other than slaves for centuries. Diamonds and uranium are a recent thing.

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Re:SpaceX test flight of Starship SN-5 [video] by menybuvico on Thursday August 06, 2020 @03:16AM (#24068794)

I always heard it was a logistic issue more than anything else? Getting from Europe to the Americas and then back in a sailing vessel is easier than getting to Africa's East coast and back.

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Re:SpaceX test flight of Starship SN-5 [video] by pfdietz on Friday August 07, 2020 @08:24AM (#24081087)

Which explains why Africa was colonized so much more successfully than (checks notes) ... Australia?

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