Bon voyage, Thor, we'll miss you.
Thank you for saying that. He came to visit my parents, years ago when I was very small, and I vaguely recall meeting him. My Dad was a very skilled amatuer boat-builder, and they talked for hours. How & when they first met is lost to me, but I'll ask my Mom next time I see her.
I'm surprised nobody else commented on this. Here we have a case of a great man who is 87 years old,having to die a painful death from starvation because of archaic religious laws that prevented him from getting a doctor to show him the same courtesy we show dogs and cats.
Enjoy the view from above...
The one line that I remember was that plagues are mankinds foxes. Relating to the fact that as the lemming population increased in the artic the foxes had larger litters.
No doubt that Thor Heyerdahl's adventures were both interesting and hazardous.
But from an objective perspective, his "conclusive proof" is pure junk science.
Fabricating "evidence" is not "proof".
The only "proof" we can ever obtain lies in whatever archaeological artifacts and manuscripts we can recover.
Many things will never be known conclusively.
That said, Thor Heyerdahl: RIP. You made some entertaining documentaries.
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