| ▲ | Mystery behind Moana: After 1,700 years, why did Polynesians suddenly sail east?(theconversation.com) |
| 35 points by pseudolus 4 hours ago | 17 comments |
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| ▲ | goda90 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| This talks about climate impacting the population, but it made me wonder if herd immunity to disease in an isolated population could cause population limiting diseases to go extinct after awhile. |
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| ▲ | mtoner23 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Food would be the biggest barrier to population growth in pre modern times |
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| ▲ | ezconnect 16 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| They are probably trying but only succeeded after many failures and fix the food supply of a long sea journey, navigation and mapping of the sea. |
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| ▲ | clickety_clack an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Why does anyone do anything? Some people obviously just got really into the idea of sailing to the islands. Right now there are people in the world that are super into the idea of going to Mars. There’s no reason why anyone has to do it, but they’re into the idea of it and they’ll find whatever rationale they need to explain the desire. |
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| ▲ | PyWoody 29 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | But why, some say, the Moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask, why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas? We choose to go to the Moon. We choose to go to the Moon... We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one we intend to win, and the others, too.
- JKF, 1962
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| ▲ | rflrob 42 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | There are always going to be people whose reason is “because we can”. Going to Mars has, on the scale of a human lifetime, only recently become vaguely feasible. As someone who works in STEM, I’m generally on the side of new technologies unlocking things, though I don’t doubt that population and environmental shifts in the home territory can tip things over from a few crazy dreamers to a more coordinated expansion. | |
| ▲ | kelseyfrog an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | We're going to Mars because of rainfall patterns. The anthropologists of the future will peice together clues and come to the same conclusion. | | | |
| ▲ | RajT88 an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | "Why was there a massive migration to Mars starting in 2050? More importantly why did every wave of settlers die out almost immediately"? |
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| ▲ | yzydserd an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| An increase in the supply of boat snacks? |
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| ▲ | ohyoutravel 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| This was covered in the movie. |
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| ▲ | dosisking 16 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| TLDR; There was a guy who sailed west. Other people didn't like that guy, so they sailed the opposite way. |
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| ▲ | dostick an hour ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Same reason as everything - looking for women |
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