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The pro astronomers can't see why everyone isn't on board with them. I have a better than average knowledge of astronomy and the Mauna Kea telescopes than most. There is a lack of cultural understanding. The guys on Mauna Kea don't know how important the stars are to the Hawaiians. No one just jumps in a canoe, cruises the ocean 2000 miles and finds an island. Have you seen or explored the Polynesian Voyaging Society?http://www.pbs.org/wayfinders/polynesian8.html
Last I heard was that they were getting the canoe to go through the Panama Canal. They did an around the world float. Using only the stars for navigation. No modern instruments. I have some friends that are doing the trip. They change out crews on different segments. Robbie the po for my Strada worked as a crew member from FL to NYC then flew home to Honolulu. Nearest land to Hawaii is the Marquesas about 1800 miles to the south of Hawaii. The scientists think that the Marquesans just jumped in a canoe and found Hawaii by mistake. Their descendants, Hawaiians were going on long voyages by chance. They had trained navigators that had them going long distances. They navigated by the stars, temp. of the water, wind currents and they observed flora & fauna.
Would you just jump in a canoe and sail north 1800 miles to another set of islands?
In your scenario that would make sense but not in feudal Hawaii with a king and a royal family. They didn't have those morale restrictions. The royalty didn't have the Protestant morality which was later place on them after the missionaries came into the kingdom. We got the Christian Protestant religion and all the negative aspects of Western culture. Diseases, land grabs, alcoholism, gambling, lost of natural resources and a population of people that came in to take what they could then leave.
I agree with your observation from a Westerner's point of view. In feudal Hawaii, definitely no mixing of the commoners with royals but not the other way around.
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And that's all I was saying about why some dude might tackle an 1800 mile canoe trip ... some truths are universal, always have been. The rest of the lecture, I've heard before ... Lannis