American clippers were fast for the day, but like all sailing ships they were held up by the doldrums for an unpredictable time. It was this unpredicrability as much as the faster pace of steam ships that sealed their fate.
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Arts and crafts: Go forth and make life!
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“Continuous stirring made early life-like RNA systems more extinction-prone, experiment shows”
.https://phys.org/news/2026-06-early-life-rna-extinction-prone.html
Naah. Go straight to DNA. There was a documentary about some kind of park.
Snarki, child of Lokisays
Certainly, “motorized” ships were more efficient, and less at the mercy of the elements.
But DAMN those sail ships were beautiful!
…or maybe that’s just a learned response? Not sure I care.
American clippers were fast for the day, but like all sailing ships they were held up by the doldrums for an unpredictable time. It was this unpredicrability as much as the faster pace of steam ships that sealed their fate.
.
Arts and crafts: Go forth and make life!
.
“Continuous stirring made early life-like RNA systems more extinction-prone, experiment shows”
.https://phys.org/news/2026-06-early-life-rna-extinction-prone.html
Naah. Go straight to DNA. There was a documentary about some kind of park.
Certainly, “motorized” ships were more efficient, and less at the mercy of the elements.
But DAMN those sail ships were beautiful!
…or maybe that’s just a learned response? Not sure I care.