This is an excellent lesson in how shitty my sense of geographic scale is.
I would have guessed that the size of the eruption was on par with the size of a small city.
I would have guessed that the size of the eruption was on par with the size of a small city.
There’s also I think some mystery about some South American DNA that doesn’t support the land bridge hypothesis. I don’t know if that’s well supported or not/evidence might be poor, haven’t bothered to do any digging. I think that’s distinct from what was found linking some populations to Polynesians and suggests there might have been seafaring people that made it even earlier, but I’m not sure.
Well, they didn't.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Magellan#Voyage
> Of the 270 men who left with the expedition, only 18 or 19 survivors returned.
A 93% mortality rate really isn't a success by any metric. Losing 80% of your ships is nothing to be proud of either.
A little off topic, but as a reminder of how different the world used to be: families used to move across the US on foot, maybe with a wagon carrying their supplies, and many died doing so. I'm quite thankful I can just get on a plane to see my family :).
Also, as someone who needs to remind themselves occasionally to be less negative, I would encourage you to be less negative about things that aren't 100% a success.
P.S. If you really want to hate on Magellan it would make sense to do so for something like him burning a village in Mactan because they didn't want to convert to Catholicism[0], not this. You may be pleased to hear that this directly led to his death.
One hour.
Sanity check: it's never dark in the animations, which it would be if the images were taken over 24 hours. In other views you can see the night approaching.