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Originally Posted by Amnorix
Brass ones.
I have tremendous respect for those early explorers, whether Lewis & Clark on land, or all the famous ones at sea.
Anyone who is willing to go someplace on nothing more than a "where are we going?" *points* "that way".  |
I've never bothered reading up on it, but I'm always curious how food and water are handled on exploratory voyages. I presume that they take some, and then they calculate how much they can harvest en route, and then come up with some "point of no return" (or if exploring Kansas, "point of know return") at which point they turn around. Or was it that scientific?
It seems like water would be a major problem. Water is heavy.