Did I Discover America?

Can you draw a sketch of the thing?

"the fan pulls open the window"?

Dear Lyn

I don't succseed to copy or attach my drawing to this mail.

In past, I succseeded, but something is wrong now.

Any tip?

What you need is a hovercraft to cruise around on....

http://www.hoverhawk.com/

I had seen those you can down load place on the internet.

I was making one with my nephew........ But, I was looking for a throttle control just like that.

Thanks.

I love the 'cup holder'! It wouldn't be American without a 'cup holder'!

No! And you also did not invent the wheel.

The driving force is pressure, air pressure to be exact!

So you just discovered for yourself how things move when a pressure differential is applied!

Have fun with your testing!

Ne bother with them drawing your discription was plain enough!

Now take a spool of thread...the old fashioned kind about an inch in diameter. Cut a piece of cardboard a little bigger than the end of the spool. Push a pin into it,and drop the pin into the spool. Then try to blow the cardboard off the end.

Report back on this experiment. Explain.

Did I did discover America? No, in fact it was always there, the Indians lived there. They knew where it was all along and kept it secret as they were happy. Then some foreign sailor noticed the land mass as he was drifting by, in a gentle breeze, fishing and wondering what to do as he was bored silly. I also think, from history, it was Magellan who bumped into the land mass, way before Christopher Columbus.

But there was nothing to discover, it was there, people lived there and they knew exactly where America was. It was more a realisation for others that it was there, just where it had been left previously.

Christopher Columbus 'The true story'.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Flip+Wilson+%22Christopher+Columbus

Thanks for that link. Really good.

No, I do believe it was Cabot who discovered mainland America about 4 hundred years after Leif Ericson found it. Unkown Portuguese sailors where whaling there about 50 years before even Cabot showed up! They were not supposed to talk about it, but you know how good the wine is in Portugal, and in vino veritas!

Crowmannion. Did he have a hand it walking there long before Lief Ericsson. Well someone stumbles across the land mass and I am sure some folks are happy that someone did stumble there. I cannot tell a lie, it was not me.

Oh right....neolithic men and women. There was an interesting article a few years ago about the "ATLANTIC ICE BRIDGE" which could have enabled mammoth hunters in Europe a way to get to the new world across the remnants of the glaciers. Unproven, but plausible. But there IS evidence.

Much later, we have evidence of a trading camp in Baffin Island, scales and other artifacts suggest that it was an unknown Viking trader. Or more than one, apparently it went on for near a half century. Lots of things to trade in those days...Walrus and Narwhale ivory, seal furs, polar bear hides, pickled (salted) cormorant eggs and muskox wool. Iceland was a source for eider down. Pity those sustainable industries have gone by the board. Probably too much work.

Well in all reality I think it is called 'Progress'. What was not stated about progress is that it kills small industries and economics for most and shifts the balance of income to other countries.

Once, all the land was joined together so people could walk about freely, so my guess is that America was 'discovered' (found, inhabited, located), long, long ago, just no one put a name to, it so in all fairness, maybe they should be asking who gave America its name, rather than who 'discovered' it. And what was it called before it was called America?

You can only discover something if it is lost or suddenly exists. If it was there all along, it could not be discovered, as it existed and was not lost in the first place.