Dude, this is an interesting debate about a fascinating topic. Please don’t needlessly make it personal. We’re debating ideas about exploration and history. Nobody else in this thread used a sarcastic tone but you.

You’re starting to take this debate a little personally. Neither argument here is ever going to get proven (do you have any proof for your hypothesis?), and that’s OK. It’s OK to think about and hypothesize and perform thought experiments. Lacking proof, we can look instead at the balance of probabilities, or as you…