Slashdot Mirror
Chinese Explorers 'Discovered America'?
FLY9999 writes: "According to British historian and map expert Gavin Menzies, Chinese explorers discovered America way before Columbus did. He will disclose his information to the prestigious Royal Geographical Society (RGS) at a conference next week."
I hope this doesn't mean that they are going to claim us as a "renegade state" now...
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
Someday they'll dig up a Chinese skeleton in California, with a Viking-axe stuck in it's skull.
"Honey, I feel a certain distance between us..." "Really? A 31ms ping ain't that bad..."
All these films about things that happen in America are just a myth. The country doesn't exist. It's just a children's story, like Atlantis. There is no mythical continent across the atlantic. Think about it. If there really is a country there, then surely if you stood at the west coast of Ireland you would be able to see it. You can't. If you can't see something that you're looking at directly then it isn't there.
I'm sure some people will disagree with me. Well, I ask you this - Have you been there? Have you actually seen this place? Why did nobody ever mention it until really quite recently? And I mean the past 100 years or so. I challenge anyone to find a resource more recent than 1900 that indicates that the place exists.
It was clearly an invention of European governments to use as an excuse to devalue their currencies in the 1920's. They didn't want to blame themselves, so they invented another country to blame.
Face it. America is a ridiculous liberal myth.
Great! Now we are just waiting for (north) americans to discover the rest of the world!
So, you've been to LA recently :o) *ducks*
When playing Civ 3 starting out in North America, every friggin country discovers me before I discover them ... damn them.