Primetimer July 27, 2015 Share July 27, 2015 From Greenland to little green men, it's the In Search Of... Marathon Diary! Read the story Link to comment
Merneith July 28, 2015 Share July 28, 2015 What the hell is that thing Nimoy's holding in the header photo? Also, his tie & jacket!! Also Also, was that Issac Asimov? Too bad they couldn't have just done an interview with the Inuit lady. I bet she had some stories to tell. Link to comment
beadgirl July 28, 2015 Share July 28, 2015 I'm really enjoying these summaries, Sarah! It's almost enough to make me seek out the episodes. Almost. Link to comment
Sarah D. Bunting July 28, 2015 Share July 28, 2015 It's Erik the Red's sword*, and yes, that's Asimov with the solar-flare sideburns. *not really Link to comment
Latverian Diplomat July 28, 2015 Share July 28, 2015 THE "SIR OR MADAM, I'M AFRAID YOU'RE FULL OF SHIT" MOMENT The idea that the fireball is proof of another civilization watching us "very benevolently." If flattening trees for miles around is "very benevolent," what does regular benevolence look like, never mind outright bitchiness? Anybody remember a TV movie from several years ago like this? It was in the format of a real time news broadcast, like Special Bulletin, but terrible. After the first meteor love note, which destroyed a city, three more are on the way, and we nuke them in self defense, causing the "friendly" aliens to drop what looked like the whole Asteroid Belt on our heads. The show ends on a weird moralizing note that if only we humans had been more patient and less quick to resort to violence (?) we could have avoided our own destruction. The Vinland colony was probably unsustainable anyway, since the mother Greenland colony wasn't doing so great either, but one theory (I think Jared Diamond mentions this in Collapse) says that lactose intolerance may have played a role. Norse records say they traded with the Native Americans, then shortly after, the Native Americans attacked. One of the recorded Norse trade goods was milk. It's quite possible the Native Americans thought they were victims of an attempted poisoning and retaliated. Link to comment
Ubiquitous July 30, 2015 Share July 30, 2015 I may be mistaken, but Greenland and Iceland were colonized during a brief warming period and when the climate returnd to normal, it was too cold to maintain, so abandoned it. Link to comment
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