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It's weird how much we want it to be true though.
The hard, and scary, part is planning to bring enough supplies when you don't know when you'll see land.
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> but we'll never know about them
unless Meso-american religion told us about white Gods with beards coming from the East
That's today. Back then, they wouldn't know whether there is even land. Imagine what it means to sail without maps or equipment in time when what we considered basic general knowledge about physics was not even there.
It would take as much courage as sending a manned mission to the Outer Solar system today.