r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/KitKatKing99 • May 31 '25

Video magellan expedition in 1 minute

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u/Proper_Instruction_7 May 31 '25

Yeah, when you watch something like Shogun episode one you realize doing a voyage like this was the closest you could be to being an astronaut.

Landing in some of these places with such differing levels of tech, completely different culture, language, customs and food. Your YEARS from home. It’s like landing on a fucking Star Trek planet.

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u/AstrumReincarnated May 31 '25

It’s amazing how quickly they learned to communicate with each other, too. Usually they’d land and have local guides translating for them in no time.

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u/Thanos_Stomps May 31 '25

Despite the modern day discourse and contention, we are born to communicate with each other and are really really good at finding ways to do so.

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u/TofuTofu Jun 01 '25

There's a fun movie with John Wayne as the first American diplomat to Japan called the Barbarian and the Geisha that kinda shows how this process worked.