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The study is about starting to be eaten while still alive. Though I suppose some fungi can do that too.

Coyotes like children.

Are you saying HR lives in Jersey? :d

The big surprise to me is the high odds of being mauled by a brown bear in Europe. I didn't think there were enough of them left, even in the east.

I have been told that people who are actually there should be believed:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/01/opinion/china-covid-holiday-new-year.html



Looking at the math, China should be...

Insects would be far worse...

Turns out I live in the safest continent except for Oz! :D

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3001946
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Can you find any actual human beings in China? Or just xibots foaming at the mouth and covid-proof erectus?

Fortunately the CCP will not be replacing anyone, in the US or Taiwan. An autocracy...

You are almost funny, HR, except when you become a genocide denier.

People are being put into reeducation camps for no reason other than their ethnic culture.

Hundreds of thousands of people...

Exactly.

What some of us did say is that the official Chinese covid death figures are obviously lies, and that unless the Chinese are a different species of human, their sudden "herd immunity"...

Of course he is. But he thinks we are not.

that never jams. :D

We know a bot when we see one.

Doesn't look too hair raising for two experienced seamen in a good boat:
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Bolsonaro has applied for a US tourist visa as his diplomatic visa expires.

I kind of wish he would stay in Florida forever. But it is poor form to give shelter to someone under investigation for...

Boris Johnson's credibility can be deduced from the fact that no one bothered to post his claim about Putin threatening him with a missile until Vadim brought it up.

Exactly.

These people flood threads with which they disagree with long-winded, repetitive, and aggressive posts. Even though they change no one's mind, they still try to derail the discussion...

Thank dog OSHA-like creatures have not spread their tentacles to wooden boats, or even schooners couldn't get crew.

I am thinking of what OSHA (or its Brazilian twin) would require to change a jib...

Russia must be scraping the bottom of the barrel if two fishermen, aged 44 and 51, have to flee their draft.

That is a very high bar. It would require as proof something of the caliber of The Origin of the Species.

I'd maybe put Zheng Ha's voyages on a par with Marco Polo's.

I wonder if they read Shackleton?

Yes, but the lack of overhanging canvas, in a heavy beamy ship like that... dhows are light.

Vadim, you are a war crime.

I like the tires... remind me of Jupiter.

European ships had a spritsail and a lateen mizzen, which evolved into jibs and gaff mizzens. They helped steer the ship. Even Dalia was much less nimble without her jib.

One wonders how nimble...

I know one thing about China. Some people who live there are real jerks. They attack anyone who posts anything they don't like about China, and then whine like babies when they are called xibots.

While Europeans were free to experiment and explore.




I am pretty sure they would have preferred their ships discovering America, and their gunboats going up European rivers, rather than as...

I was responding to this:

Whaddabout?

To me that looks like a Portuguese caravel hull type and mast layout (roughly). That also fits the period better.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caligula%27s_Giant_Ship

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syracusia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis_(ship)

And why not the Nemo ships? The largest Chinese ships...

Europeans had ships as big as that 1500 years earlier.

Zheng He's fleet, as large as it might have been and as far as it might have gone, seems to have been little more than a top-down stunt. Build some huge ships and go very far just to show how great...

Um, no. I started the thread to point out that rusbots and xibots are everywhere - not just here in the Bilge. And that they all act very similarly, out of the same recipe book. And that they all...

But "rusbot" doesn't offend you?

Will you also defend Vadim?

HR, you are funny. You just ran and deleted the post you put on the four masts - six masts thread. A rare post of yours on a thread about boats.

You know - the one where you jumped in to defend...

On the contrary. You can't help but "interact" whenever anyone mentions China. Just like Vadim can't help but post in any thread that mentions Russia.

Other than that neither of you "interact"...

The people of Ukraine are pretty upset.

China too, but mainly on the Ukraine thread.

Funny how a couple of you recognize and despise the rusbot activity on that thread, but pretend to not see the identical MO of the xibot.

It's early 2023. Where are the results?

No need to swat anything down! It is actually amusing to bring up the topic of rusbots and xibots and have one of each immediately self-present for scrutiny.

So if it was possible to have 600-foot sailing ships, how come no one else ever used them?

Has this?

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/9CA1/production/_116779004_32370254-4455-47bd-ba70-833206d8ab67.jpg.webp

https://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/ESP_076769_1380.jpg

Images from space also say otherwise to what xibots claim about the Uighur concentration camps.

But that doesn't stop the xibots from denying it.

I guess the shoe fits. 6 posts and counting.

I am simulating the bots' MO and "line of reasoning".

HR and Vadim didn't get it either.

This is too easy... and they don't see the irony.

Not to mention poor performance on anything but a broad reach.

Also, there is no genocide of indigenous people in Brazil. I am recovering from injuries sustained at a confrontation between Yanomami and gold miners, where I was working to keep the two sides...