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The Picard Maneuver@startrek.website to Funny: Home of the Haha@lemmy.world · 2 years ago

Side-effect of flattening a globe

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The Picard Maneuver@startrek.website to Funny: Home of the Haha@lemmy.world · 2 years ago
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  • Kühlschrank@lemmy.world
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    Another thing we mostly have no clue about thanks to most of our maps is how massively large the Pacific ocean is.

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      And somehow fellas just sort of wandered to places like pitcairn islands, chance of a million.

      Pitcairn islands are a great wikipedia rabbit hole if you’re into freaky crazy shit btw.

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        There’s a whole season of the podcast Extremities about Pitcairn. Totally worth it.

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          thank you hans

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        What a wild read. Thanks for sharing

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        The band Rasputina does a good bit about the Pitcairn Islands.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh_Perilous_World

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          Yeah the mutineers are one thing but wait til you get to the extent of child rape on the island that reached the point at which most of it was brushed off since essentially the whole island would’ve had its total male population imprisoned. Some wacky ass shit going down there let me tell ya.

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            Most shit is ass shit.

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      Can confirm, I lived in the middle of it (Polynesia), first airports (Auckland and LA) were 6 and 8h flights away.

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        What is it like over there? How’s foods and all?

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          It’s fine, it depends which island you go to, the big ones have supermarkets, restaurants, etc etc. You can eat almost anything but will pay a premium for stuff that gets imported by plane. If it’s one of the smaller/less populated ones then you need to get your groceries by the weekly plane delivery and otherwise a lot of coconut and fish.

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          I heard they have a lot of Polynesian food.

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      pirate island birds tweets in the background

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      Or that the shortest route to China is over Siberia.

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        Or that the shortest route to China is over Siberia.

        That depends entirely on where you start.

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          True, American here.

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