- outer_spec ( @outer_spec@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English70•4 months ago
Are you suggesting that coconuts migrate?
Straight into my piña colada
- Pantrygheist ( @Pantrygheist@programming.dev ) English12•3 months ago
Oh no, maybe they were carried by a bird? (Apologies, I don’t remember the exact line)
- jellyhuemul ( @jellyhuemul@feddit.cl ) English60•4 months ago
and carried by swallows ofc
- Devdogg ( @Devdogg@lemmy.ml ) English38•4 months ago
African or European swallows?
- jellyhuemul ( @jellyhuemul@feddit.cl ) English6•4 months ago
african definitively
- swab148 ( @swab148@startrek.website ) English8•3 months ago
But of course, African swallows are non-migratory…
- NoIWontPickAName ( @NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth ) 19•4 months ago
Like catnip for nerds
- modifier ( @modifier@lemmy.ca ) English11•4 months ago
I sensed the joke from a few instances over.
- HipsterTenZero ( @HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone ) English9•4 months ago
Or gorillas with coconut-based weaponry that fires in spurts
- Not_mikey ( @Not_mikey@slrpnk.net ) English30•3 months ago
According to wikipedia this is the less likely and imo less interesting explanation. They did find coconuts that are genetically distinct from the ones the Spanish brought over from the Philippines, but those ones are more distantly related to the ones in polynesia so they probably didn’t float over. Instead they are more likely evidence of pre-columbian contact of Polynesians with south and central America, along with sweet potatoes originating in South America but being present in polynesia and SEA prior to columbus.
So this would boot Columbus off the podium in people who discovered America.
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Bering strait people / native American ancestors
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Polynesian people
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Vikings, Leif Erickson
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Columbus
- PhlubbaDubba ( @PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee ) English11•3 months ago
I personally like the “literally everyone else got their first” theory as a joke that suggests that Mansa Musa’s predecessor and the Ming Dynasty treasure fleets also happened to get there, granted with Mansa Musa’s predecessor making a one way trip and with the treasure fleets not actually having realized they’d hit a distinct landmass.
- No_Change_Just_Money ( @No_Change_Just_Money@feddit.de ) English7•3 months ago
Your point is valid, but less funny and will therefore be ignored
(Thank you for fact checking)
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- LibertyLizard ( @LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net ) English21•4 months ago
Coconuts were introduced to the Caribbean region by humans. They didn’t just float there.
- 0ops ( @0ops@lemm.ee ) English12•4 months ago
Great, now I don’t know what to believe
- 0ops ( @0ops@lemm.ee ) English7•3 months ago
Thanks, you’re a real one
- black_mouflon ( @black_mouflon@beehaw.org ) English16•3 months ago
They were actually carried by birds. See this documentary. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4_9kDO3q0w&t=44 /s
- Chuymatt ( @Chuymatt@beehaw.org ) English7•3 months ago
No need to click, folks. You know what it is.