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Post by Georgie L on Oct 22, 2012 19:54:19 GMT
My plausible theory, she is even older than predictions and gained her name wandering eye from the natives back when the few vikings settled in americas.
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Post by smjjames on Oct 22, 2012 20:53:36 GMT
My plausible theory, she is even older than predictions and gained her name wandering eye from the natives back when the few vikings settled in americas. Only one problem, how did she get back to Europe? Not sure if that was a one way trip or not (probably not).
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Post by goldenknots on Oct 24, 2012 2:23:24 GMT
Only one problem, how did she get back to Europe? Not sure if that was a one way trip or not (probably not). She walked. What's going to stop her?
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Post by smjjames on Oct 24, 2012 4:18:39 GMT
Only one problem, how did she get back to Europe? Not sure if that was a one way trip or not (probably not). She walked. What's going to stop her? Over what, pack ice? Assuming she is capable of drowning that is. Although she could very well have simply walked across the frozen arctic, she could easily just punch a polar bears brains out, literally, so they won't be a problem. Also assuming that the cold isn't an issue....
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Oct 24, 2012 6:15:16 GMT
Unless she's got some secret abilities, or magic or technological aids, if I were Jones I wouldn't try to walk back either over the pole or on the ocean floor, even assuming she's indestructible, indefatigable and doesn't need to breathe or eat.
If she went the northern route over the ice then she'd have to deal with hidden crevasses and ravines; there are some that are very deep, slick, and at the bottom they can ooze ice turned back to water through compression, not melting (super-cooled). If she fell into one of those the question would not be how many centuries she'd be down there but how many tens of centuries. Then there's the blinding snowstorms that can last days when they don't last weeks.
If she tries to walk along the ocean floor the problem is navigation and sediment. Once she's lost daylight she won't know where she's going and the ocean floor is far from flat. Even if she's perfectly symmetrical and capable of walking in a straight line without visual points of reference she'd need a navigational aid to avoid getting lost. Even if she had magical or technological assistance (like a tritium-lit compass that's depth proof to ten kilometers) she'd still need to avoid places where she could get stuck. Using a walking stick as a probe could be a work-around for that but doing that for months in the dark... even with that tricked-out compass there's no telling where she'd wind up.
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Post by smjjames on Oct 24, 2012 6:30:26 GMT
She could probably climb her way out of such a crevasse, we've seen her punch through concrete (although what the structural integrity of that concrete was, well probably never truly know), so punching handholds into the ice wouldn't be too much of a problem.
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Oct 24, 2012 6:56:06 GMT
Rock? Yes. Jelly-like ice? Nope, without help she's there for the duration of the glacier. Regular ice? Maybe she could climb out, or maybe with her small hands an ice surface couldn't bear her weight, all depending on how much she weighs, but tunneling or making steps might be an option. Compacted snow might also be a problem; a regular human could dog-paddle across where she would flounder and sink, and possibly get stuck before reaching anything like a solid bottom. Not good.
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Post by Lightice on Oct 24, 2012 11:36:25 GMT
Only one problem, how did she get back to Europe? Not sure if that was a one way trip or not (probably not). Ships did go both ways. The whole point of starting up colonies was to make profit, and profit needs trade. America wasn't a completely new thing in the 17th century, and plenty of people were interested in the riches of the continent.
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Post by Georgie L on Oct 24, 2012 20:53:07 GMT
there were also more than one trip to america, just the 17th century one was where resources and a easier route to america (thus making it financially viable to colonize and trade) were finally discovered.
Vikings are believed to be the first to colonize tiny areas of america but there is signs that the first ever american settlers was in the ice age and there are of course the spanish and dutch that made outposts there before it was financially viable way before the 17th century.
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