If one, or all, of the ships had sunk, some may have survived in a long
boat, or even a hunk of mast floating, but the *point* being, they weren't
instantly, automatically doomed when the ship sunk.

So there you are, floating on a hunk of mast, a thousand miles from
anywhere, in the middle of the ocean - an ocean nobody has crossed
before and most people think is close to the big waterfall at edge of
the world. You have three days before you die of thirst, a week or
three before you starve.

Oh. There are sharks.

What's your point? It's better to die slowly?

how'd the QM get in this?

The QM is how we think of ocean travel now. It was harder back in the
days when the world was flat.

my position is that the ones operating on
terra firma (or to a lesser degree water) have an advantage over someone
operating in a vacumn @ plus/minus 2-300º (or whatever) millions of miles
from earth.

But the ones operating in a vacuum have the advantage of NASA.

You pick your tools to match your challenge. That's all.

Jose
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