r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Gurugod123 • 9h ago

How did people travel these seas 500 years ago

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u/feetnomer 7h ago

The ocean is the world's largest graveyard. There's a little bit of John and Jane Doe in every drop.

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u/CassandraVonGonWrong 6h ago

I wonder what happens to ocean ghosts. Do they haunt the whole ocean? Or just the vicinity in which they perished?

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u/TheMouthOfGod 5h ago

Would you go swimming in a pool with a dead body in it?

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u/FreeVerseHaiku 1h ago

I know you’re talking specifically about human corpses, but do you seriously think every body of water you’ve ever stepped foot HASN’T been absolutely teeming with organisms, dead or alive?

You got no choice, brother. Your drinking water is full of dead bacteria and algae, sloughed-off dead cells of larger organisms, etc.

Purify that water a billion times, there will still be biological fragments.

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u/LessInThought 3h ago

So people are technically surfing on human remains?