Everyone are always commenting about how i walk
what if there would be a big movie, and i get to be the only one who could portray a certain character there.
The experts who reviewed Columbus's plan told him not to sail, and they were right. He had told them Asia sat about 2,400 nautical miles west of Europe. The real distance was about four times that. Spain funded the voyage anyway.
His whole case depended on shrinking the planet. More than two thousand years ago, a Greek librarian named Eratosthenes measured the distance around the Earth and came within about one percent of the real number, so educated Europeans in the 1400s already knew the world was round and roughly how big. Columbus ignored that figure and picked the smallest estimate of the Earth's size he could find, then stretched Asia thousands of miles eastward using Marco Polo's travel stories and some arithmetic of his own. On the map in his head, Japan sat right about where the Caribbean actually is.
The scholars who rejected him had run the math themselves. They knew the Earth was round, had a fair estimate of its size, and had worked out that no ship of that century could carry enough food and water to cross that much open ocean. The schoolbook version, where Columbus insists the world is round while frightened scholars picture a flat edge, has it backwards. He was the one sailing on broken numbers. The men who doubted him had the size of the planet about right.
He survived for one reason. Two entire continents were sitting in the stretch of ocean where his math promised nothing but water. He reached the Bahamas about five weeks after leaving the Canary Islands. Had North and South America not been in the way, his three ships would have sailed on into the open Pacific and run out of supplies long before any coast appeared. He found a new world by being wrong about the old one.
And he never accepted what he had found. In June 1494, working his way along the coast of Cuba, he made his whole crew sign a sworn statement in front of a notary declaring that the island was the mainland of Asia. Anyone who took it back later faced a fine and the loss of his tongue. The route in this map, curling all the way to the East Indies, is the world exactly as Columbus swore it was, right up until he died in 1506.
Soulja Boy says he wants to start his own awards show to honor rappers that he feels don't get enough recognition 👀
"Might start my own awards show and give it to rappers who never got they credit. NBA Youngboy, Chief Keef, Kodak Black, etc. no reason they never won a BET Award or a Grammy."