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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA
I guarantee that most people don't realize that the most successful ship design of all time came 1000 years before the Europeans came close and it still exists in widespread use today.

Most people will say it's junk and I'll have to agree.

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11 posted on 02/03/2009 1:04:26 PM PST by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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To: cripplecreek

It’s a beautiful ship & one like it might have carried the technology for wheeled toys from the orient to the “New World”.


14 posted on 02/03/2009 1:07:54 PM PST by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: cripplecreek
I'm lookin' at your junk.
20 posted on 02/03/2009 1:38:07 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: cripplecreek

Zheng He’s fleet, and the ships in it, were on a scale that wasn’t matched until the 20th century. There are populations of Chinese ancestry on African islands from one of his ships that wrecked. His voyages put Marco Polo to shame, and some folks believe he even reached the New World.

The Ming government ordered his ships burned and his records destroyed in the belief that China had all the wisdom the world had to offer and all this running around was a waste of time. Which leads to an important point: The critical prerequisite for discovery is curiosity.


27 posted on 02/03/2009 5:30:06 PM PST by ReignOfError
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