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Captain James Cook makes an accidental discovery?
Bing ^ | 6/11/2021 | Bing

Posted on 06/11/2021 10:55:58 AM PDT by MAGA2017

I use the Bing engine to avoid using Google. It's far less offensive than Google but it still is stricken with Wokeness too.

The=y have history tidbits and this is what they have for today:

"Captain James Cook makes an accidental discovery English explorer Captain James Cook's ship runs aground off the coast of Australia, in the world's largest coral reef system. The Great Barrier Reef was already well-known to the Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander peoples."

Really? did the Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander peoples explored and map the the reef? Did they produce charts or any kind of map? Did they investigate and catalogue what lives there?

Maybe the Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander peoples knew the reef was there but that doesn't mean they understood it or its significance.


TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
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To: MAGA2017

It’s a bit like saying Leonardo Da Vinci invented the airplane. There’s a difference between conceptualizing and scientific-technologically developing that concept.


21 posted on 06/11/2021 1:52:25 PM PDT by Tallguy
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

They had the reef half done to keep the illegal English out but a new leader who was elected by fake straws came in and stopped building the reef so that the illegal English immigrants could cross the open reef and vote fer him.


22 posted on 06/11/2021 1:52:35 PM PDT by bunkerhill7 (That`s 464 people per square foot! Is this corrrect?? It was NYC.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

She hasn’t been to Fiji either


23 posted on 06/11/2021 2:03:59 PM PDT by RaceBannon (Rom 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for )
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To: Mr Rogers

“Does this mean someone who lives a half-mile from a reef is more likely to know its location than someone from 10,000 miles away?”

Lol... Incredible concept isn’t it? I’m shaking my head still trying to figure out the point of the post in the first place...


24 posted on 06/12/2021 3:57:10 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: MAGA2017

“Really? did the Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander peoples explored and map the the reef? Did they produce charts or any kind of map? Did they investigate and catalogue what lives there?”

Yes... They did.


25 posted on 06/12/2021 4:39:51 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Two Kids' Dad; Clutch Martin; MAGA2017

Duh, the navigator was Captain Obvious!


26 posted on 06/12/2021 12:01:11 PM PDT by ro_dreaming ("XX = female; XY = male. Who's the science deniers now?" - Me)
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