[Daffynition]

Buckminster Fuller may have been on to something when he created his Dymaxion Air-Ocean World Map ... The Fuller Projection. 'He wrote about about the possibilities of global exploration primarily by following the coast lines. He thought the Phoenicians may have circumnavigated the world before the Greek's golden age. The largest jump is from the Faroe islands to Iceland, Greenland and Newfoundland, the route across the North Atlantic that St Brendan traveled before a thousand a.d. in a corracle (skin covered wood frame boat) not six feet in diameter. The point is that people moved around a lot more in pre-historic times than historians allow. And after too, maybe. So the origin of the Amerinds is still an open question. So is the fact that archaeologists have found remains in North America that appear to not be Amerinds yet predate known Amerind sites in the same area.'

Perhaps DNA testing will bring us closer to what we don't know. Which is a lot. ;-D

[Fred Nerks]

“Buckminster Fuller may have been on to something when he created his Dymaxion Air-Ocean World Map ... The Fuller Projection.”

http://www.zoologic.ch/dymaxion/SatMapPoster.jpg

‘The Dymaxion Map is the only flat map of the entire surface of the earth that reveals our planet as it really is an island in one ocean without any visible distortion of the relative shapes and sizes of the land areas, and without splitting any continents.’

http://www.zoologic.ch/dymaxion/dymaxion.htm

[Candor7]

North Atlantic that St Brendan traveled before a thousand a.d. in a corracle (skin covered wood frame boat) not six feet in diameter>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Just for a humorous aside, I was present at the replicant landing of the hide boat, "St. Brendan" when it landed on its journey from Greenland to Fogo Island, Newfoundland in the late 70s ( 1979 or 1980, I forget.)

THe boat was about 30 feet long with hides stretched over a wood frame. The three men abopard were scarlet from exposure, and they had full wet suits on.

I have no idea how they managed to do it , just by square sail. She was towed in the last few miles, caught in the doldrum of no landward breeze that day, with a serious storm in the offing.