Paul De Lancey, circumnavigating
On September 8, 1519, Ferdinand Magellan and 238 seamen of various ranks left Spain to circumnavigate the Earth. It was a long ocean voyage! Just over two years. Only 30 of the 239 returned home. Then out of those 30, twelve had spent some in a Cape Verde prison.
We can draw two conclusion from this.
1) You are more likely to survive sailing around the world if you go to prison en route.
Survival rate, no prison sentence = 7.9% (18 sailors out of 227)
Survival rate, prison sentence = 100% (12 sailors of 12)
Noting this, NASA plans to equip all long-range spaceships with prisons.
2) It takes a lot of time and a lot of people dying just to get back to the spot where you started. I mean, what the heck? If getting back to the same spot is circumnavigating, then I’m doing it right now. And no one’s dying, either.
You too can go around the world. Just stand still and say, “I’ve gone around the world.”
Congratulations, you world traveler, you.
– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.
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I’ve been around the sun a few times, actually a lot more times than I care to think about.
I have actually been around the world too, only once though. This always reminds me of my son who came with us on our trip around the world when he was 7-8.
A few months after we returned to London, I had to take a trip to South America for work. My son said to me, “You know Dad, you are so lucky to travel a lot”.
I said that he had been around the world and he was only 8!
His response, which came straight back: “Yes, but only once!”
Got to love your kids.