[jmacusa]

Good Lord this thing is still going on? Did it ever occur to these morons that a bunch of 18th. century sea faring criminals weren't going to have the tools and technology to dig all the way down to China on what amounts to a floating swamp?

And more over, any money or treasure these violent louts would have gotten hold would have been blown immediately on booze and women in the nearest port?

[PIF]

Did it ever occur to these morons that a bunch of 18th. century sea faring criminals weren’t going to have the tools and technology to dig all the way down to China on what amounts to a floating swamp

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Actually if you watched the show you would have learned that the tech you scorn had been in use long before the 18th century and you could even visit some of the fortifications in Canada where they were used.

Many of the ‘pirates’ were not criminals, but licensed privaters. You have been watching too many Hollywood pirate epics. Did you now that one of the most prosperous cities of the time in the New World was run by those you label pirates? It would still be standing today as a leading city had it not been wiped out by an earthquake and tsunami.

[Joe 6-pack]

"Did it ever occur to these morons that a bunch of 18th. century sea faring criminals weren't going to have the tools and technology to dig all the way down to China on what amounts to a floating swamp?"

You obviously haven't been watching the show. It was the work of the Templars ;-)