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[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 0 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

Nope. Sails. They work great for moving people and cargo across oceans.

No fossil fuels required

[–] middlemouse@lemmy.world 0 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 0 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Sail boats are amazing. Wtf. Have you never been in one?

[–] middlemouse@lemmy.world 0 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Yes I have been, they are wildly impractical for real international travel

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 0 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Apparently you don't know history.

[–] middlemouse@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

That's a stupid argument, sail boats are not practical in the world we live in today. Their use in the past doesn't matter, because that world no longer exists.

Absurd amounts of material and food are moved quickly and safely by modern shipping , sail boats are not capable of this.

If sail boats were practical then somebody would be using them already.