Love and Thunder part 3

Navigation

• To navigate, first, you need maps! Compass is not enough. You can't go straight with a compass. You will shift laterally without knowing it.
• Is Silk Road true or fake?
• So Silk Road is probably fake, because there is no road(so you can't use carts with wheels). And there are some landscapes that you simply can't cross (walking on sand in desert is hard, not to mention horse walking. It is simply too hot to cross a dessert.). You can't really use horses because your destinations don't necessary have grass.  And it is impossible to carry grass with you. And there is no maps to navigate (no records of maps), and there's no records of planning.
• Ancient shoes are very uncomfortable, people simply could't walk for long distances.
• What if someone gets sick in the middle of the trip and can't walk? and there is no village nearby?
• There are always a group of great explorers, not just one. Marco Polo weird.
• Marco Polo weird
  • How to trade resources with different tribes?
  • In order to communicate with different tribes, how many languages does Marco Polo speak?
  • Does Marco Polo have security guards? Trespassing? What happened when Marco Polo encounter thieves or gangsters?
  • Horse-back riding is impossible to endure long distance.
  • Where is Marco Polo's description of China?
  • Marco Polo's name never appeared in Chinese books?
  • Some natural obstacles are simply impossible to cross for Marco Polo, e.g. valleys, rivers, deserts.
  • How did Marco Polo navigate? Jump between small tribes/cities? So with a compass? And maps?
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  • Why didn't Marco Polo keep a diary?
  • Portolan charts.
  • Marco Polo shouldn't have the maps to complete the Silk Road journey. It took too many maps.
  • An expedition will generally have a doctor, who takes care of sick members, a botanist, who collect edible greens, which provides essential vitamins, a navigator, who leads the road, and a captain. Also a vet, who takes care of the animals. Is it possible to provide food for so many people?
• Map is still the main tool of navigation at sea, near shore of course.
• Off-shore sailing is dangerous w/o knowing your position.
• Ancient people would avoid getting lost on land, because it's dangerous. Not to mention on sea.
• 鄭和下西洋 is probably fake? Off-shore sailing was dangerous, lacking water bases, no wind.
• Ancient Whale hunting is fake. Whale is too heavy to be pulled.
• When things break, lazy people don't fix it, they replace it. That's wrong. Mother's test. Right to repair movement.
• Horse mystery. Horse feet. Horse hoot?
• On a ship that is constantly moving, it is very hard to use astrolabe accurately enough to navigate. James Cook is probably fake. Map is still the main tool. Near-shore sailing of course.
• Waves history. How ancient people understand ocean waves, and how they develop it into wave theory?
• Corset history. When did bras become invented? When did underwear become invented?
• English people was the only civilization that could recognize the concept of time?
• Commies don't build safe exits in tunnels. No stairs no exists. Fire hazard.

Christopher Columbus

• Use a compass to navigate?
• If you haven't been to a place, how can you be sure that the compass will point north there? Ancient people didn't know that the compass always pointed north, because there were places they simply couldn't go. Plus they didn't know the origin of earth's magnetic field.
• So Columbus couldn't cross the Atlantic Ocean using a compass? It was fake? No one could cross the Atlantic Ocean w/o a map. Plus, a compass wasn't invented until 19th century?
• Ancient people probably did notice that compass points north, but they don't know the reason. And they wouldn't use it on expeditions because they weren't sure if it's going to work.
• It is not enough to navigate using only compass. A compass couldn't lead you straight.
• The first people to discover North America probably went through Iceland, Greenland, Newfoundland and then to North America. Or they went through the long route, through India, China, Alaska, establishing a base in Seattle.
• If compass was invented very late, ancient people probably didn't know north, So getting lost means death. Map is crucial.
• Sailing across the ocean with no anchoring is impossible, ship would drift away at night when crew are asleep.
• How and when did ancient people form the concept of East, West, North, and South?
• How and when did ancient people find out that polar star isn't rotating?
• It seemed impossible to cross Atlantic Ocean without navigation(clocks) and steam engines. So how did US become independent as early as 1776, just tens of years after navigation is invented and steam engine invented?

setting up water bases

• Ancient people couldn't leave water source very far because they can't carry water with them.
• Roman Empire conquering Europe is fake?! Fake stories intended to win respect.
• To travel long distance (on land or by sea), you need water storage. How did they store water and how did they access the water? With a valve? Valves hadn't been invented yet.
• To store water for a-hundred-people ship was impossible. So we need to set bases for water storage along the shore/route. The bases needed constant resupply.
• So an expedition couldn't go too far in one go. They needed to set up water bases. And it required a lot of planning.
• Even in the 20th century, there are civilizations that haven't invented cloth, lived in primitive world.
• Percy Fewcett was fake?
• Horses couldn't be on expeditions, because they need to eat grass. You don't see expeditions carry grass with them. And your destination doesn't necessarily have grass. Grass is too bulky to carry.
• Horses are farm animal. They aren't suitable for expeditions.
• It took a long time to train one horse. To have an army of horses like it's shown in a movie is quite impossible
• These stories existed only to make us respect the old. So people naturally invented fake stories to win respect.
• the big questions of "How"
• How did peasants keep track of the date?
• How can we go to a spot where no land exists on any map?
• US's first lighthouse was in Oregon?
• How many civilizations know how touse animal skin as clothes?
• How many civilizations know how to make shoes?
• How many civilizations know how to make chalk, ink, maps?
• How many civilizations know the stars actually rotate in the sky?
• How many civilizations know about farming?
• What did church teach people in the 6th century? Did they already know sin? Spreading the badness of sin?
• I thought sin is for later people. But father was once primitive too, so they had sin too.
• Church taught people everything, including believes.
• Church are basically teachers.
• In 5th century, did church tell people that Christ sacrifice for them?
• Church --> witch-hunt
• I thought church people are the openness. This means at that time the acceptance of the church was not open enough.
• Middle age 5th - 15th
• Dark age 5th - 10th
• witch-hunt 1450 - 1750
• Why communists created so many lies? They want to control the whole world. They want to control USA!!

• Sensitive feelings are developed first in women apes, men comes later.
• Horses are great swimmers?
• Horses are good at directions but they can't create maps.
• Girls and English people have better smelling ability. They can tell the ingredients apart just by smelling them.

• What happened to multi-languages webpages? No longer appeared in algorithms search results. Kind of facilitates geo-locking.
• "unwilling to learn new knowledge and advanced tech.

• Paper was invented real early. But to produce in large quantity it took a long time. So it was until the ned of middle age that paper could be produced in large quantity?
• Speaking and hearing was developed much earlier than reading and writing. Most people in middle age were illiterate. Paper weren't popular! Did kings kept their history in words in writings?
• So characters probably became popular at the same time as the printing press. Characters probably developed at the same time as the printing press? Paper was made popular slightly earlier than that.
• How did civilizations paint on cave wall if they have no fire? They couldn't see. Could cave paintings be fake? Communists would create fake cave paintings just to fake and enrich their own history.
• At least one person per household (Must be the head of house?) could read? Where did that person learn reading from? Bibles were written in Latin?
• Letters are needed when students wanted to learn on their own, so they don't need to wait for the teachers to speak and answer them.

• In middle age, paper weren't popular, but it's something you can buy. There were probably paper store.
• Botanists would, I think, draw the edible plants on paper, with what painting tools? In 15th century.
• When did pets domestication occur? Animals used to be food? When did people start training animals like dogs, horses? When plantation starts. Dogs are used to herd sheep.
• If commies could lie about cave paintings, they could lie about anything else, like language origin.
• Math needs to be written on paper. Did church teach people math? Geometry also needs paper, rulers and right angles.
• Fire was very rarely seen. So it couldn't be one of the five basic elements.
• Metals were rare too. It was ver hard to extract metal from ore. So it couldn't be one of the five basic elements.
• China probably didn't invent anything they claim they invented. Mind control of communist party.
• Who invented the wheels and how?
• Bells <-- discovered from clanging metal cups!

• Spanish people probably first established bases in South America, hence the language stayed.
• Because astronomy is a popular science, English people, students can advance and train their brain so their brain is more clever. Map making, 3D->2D. Calendar! - year, month, day
• Astrolabe is an instrument so delicate that only English people can invent it.
• Only using a compass can't navigate.

Kepler planet motions

• How did Kepler know the distances of planets from sun? On the shoulders of giants! And how did he know the periods?
• Where did the data come from? There are probably a huge amount of people and efforts studying this, because at that time, astronomy is a big deal! Probably the whole Royal academy is into this problem.
• Relative to earth-sun distance? Hold on, who is rotating who? Maybe Mars-Earth distance is more correct? But this distance varies a lot! Distances to the earth are the data we measured on earth.
• ?? To measure the distance of planets, first we measure the size by measuring how long the planet covers the moons, then we can estimate how far by converting size to angle.
• Before month is created, ancient people just say day 321?
• Fathers are very good at animals, they can tell animal's emotions?
• Why a flock of birds won't collide when they fly and turn?
• Month - zodiac are related
• Taiwan is so near China that it's impossible Taiwan is not mind-controlled by China.
• Helio solar god rides on for horses --> there were no horse carriages invented at that time?
• my pronunciation is never right.
• Dr. Becky's youtube, speed of light

• Commies cover-up. In ancient times, before erasing is possible, the Chinese writing style leaves no space for typo correction. English does have a line of empty space. Chinese doesn't seem to have it. Impractical.
• Chinese doesn't seem to have comma sentence structure to connect two sentences? All sentences are independent?
• Calligraphy on paper with right-to-left column-wise writing is simply impractical. Have to raise your hands? in mid air? Impractical --> meaning it is probably not used by most people. Or there was no calligraphy. Commies' lies.
• great teacher --> fun childhood. How record player works? Compare vinyl and DVD disks. How vinyl disks are made?

phonetic language

• Phonetic language is probably more advanced than 語素文字。
• 拼音文字只要二十六個字就可表示所有文字。
• Chinese characters are a memory burden. logogram, phonogram
• The problem of Chinese characters clearly emerges when it comes to keyboard input. To input a word we need to resort to it's sound, and the shape of the word becomes extra burden and useless.
• But strictly speaking, English is not entirely phonetic? Mother's test?
• Hearing ability. European people have better hearing ability. They can separate different instruments in a song. Spainish song is a good start. Salsa.
• Not enough vocabulary, needs lots of words to describe things.
• In order to remember shape of the word, the drawback is one will have not enough vocabulary.
• 為方向，樹木取名字
• shape -> sound
• If you use shape for naming, you still need to have a sound for it because you need sound to communicate. If you use sound for naming, you lose the shape meaning, but you gain more due to simplicity. You just need to remember once.
• Logogram - inferior, phonogram - superior
• logogram doesn't tell you how to pronounce the word.
• Logogram is not for communication, they are useful in road signs, etc.