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    Humans got to Tasmania, Australia 20 000 years before they got to Scotland despite it being 3x the distance and featured the first time humans journeyed over the ocean.

    Bananas were domesticated in New Guinea

    The Maori beat Europeans to new Zealand by roughly 500 years

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      Considering the yellow weather warning and snow this morning in Scotland, I think I’d choose walking to Tasmania as well.

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        I’m scared to ask what a yellow weather warning in Scotland is, must mean it’s pishing down?

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          Pishing down, with snow!

          It wasn’t much, but enough to make traveling stressful and idiots slide all over the place.

          Yellow warning is our lowest level warning.

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            As someone who’s seen snow up close once, it seems kind of cool. Like turning your commute into a rally stage

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      Humans got to Tasmania, Australia 20 000 years before they got to Scotland despite it being 3x the distance

      Early humans out of Africa walked along the south Asian coasts, so Tasmania makes sense it its path was warmer than Scotland. Also, there were land bridges available near Australia that aren’t present today.

      and featured the first time humans journeyed over the ocean.

      We can’t possibly know that since Homo Erectus bones have been found on Crete. They could have island-hopped there from Greece, or they could have built a boat/raft.