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[Valid_Dark]

The first to discover North America was Jacques Cartier.

Pff, he has nothing on the vikings. Leif Eriksson is where it's at for your North-America-discovering needs.

EDIT: Whoops, just saw I was replying to a several pages old post.

He was also wrong.

Heard of the Native Americans?

They don't count, seeing as they are native to the place they can hardly "discover" it. It's like saying you discovered a carton of milk in your fridge that you put there yourself :p

The people that became native americans discovered north america.  They weren't always there.   your argument is like saying ” oh you found this place a few hundred years ago?  Lol you've been here to long so it doesn't count  sux2BeU”

[Soralin]

Well the Native American's did have to discover America before they could live there.

Sort of... Except they couldn't discover "America" because that didn't exist.

I know that it is a rather nipicky thing for me to say but it is actually important to understand for future references.

No, "America" is a word, it refers to a geographical area, it still refers to that area in the past, even before the word was created.  It's like saying that the wheel, or fire, wasn't discovered until recently, because "wheel" and "fire" are english words, and so they couldn't be discovered before the words for them existed.

[lemon10]

Technically Native Americans didn't discover America, the parents/grandparents/ancestors of the people who discovered it did.
It would be like saying the British discovered the British isles. They didn't, since the explorers obviously had to come from somewhere else, and thus had a different nationality.

[Flare]

Technically Native Americans didn't discover America, the parents/grandparents/ancestors of the people who discovered it did.
It would be like saying the British discovered the British isles. They didn't, since the explorers obviously had to come from somewhere else, and thus had a different nationality.

Ethiopians discovered everything. Truly the world's greatest explorers.

[Askot Bokbondeler]

everybody that got to a place they didn't know was there can be said to have discovered it. that includes the pre-columbian american settlers, the vikings, cristopher columbus, and also pedro alvares cabral, who had departed after chris but before he had returned with the news and was mildly surprised when a small detour on the way to india brought him to brazil

[lordcooper]

It doesn't count unless you stick a flag there.

[Askot Bokbondeler]

does it count if you don't return to brag?

[lordcooper]

does it count if you don't return to brag?

No.  Flag pics or it didn't happen.

[lordcooper]

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/01/07/every-promise-ever-made-the-universe-project/

This Kickstarter went wrong before it even got on Kickstarter.

[Draco18s]

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/01/07/every-promise-ever-made-the-universe-project/

This Kickstarter went wrong before it even got on Kickstarter.

I've already made fun of it to my mother.  Even as computer illiterate as she is, she gets that there's no way they could pull it off.

(How to completely trash servers: invent That Game inside That Game, thus playing the game within itself).

[miauw62]

I think somebody already posted that.

[Draco18s]

I think somebody already posted that.

That could be.  All I know is I've seen it somewhere before.

[Karlito]

Yup. And videos are still not available.

Well, there's this project, which is apparently only in a "pre-kickstarter" stage, so maybe I shouldn't post it here, but it basically looks just like Bunky Bartlett with higher production values.

[Draco18s]

Yup. And videos are still not available.

Well, there's this project, which is apparently only in a "pre-kickstarter" stage, so maybe I shouldn't post it here, but it basically looks just like Bunky Bartlett with higher production values.

That url is dead

[Tellemurius]

Yup. And videos are still not available.

Well, there's this project, which is apparently only in a "pre-kickstarter" stage, so maybe I shouldn't post it here, but it basically looks just like Bunky Bartlett with higher production values.

That url is dead

works for me