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072 - How Did Humans Find Hawaii?

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Nodumbquestionssciencehistorydestinmattsmartereverydaysmartereeryday, Education, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 30 November 2019

⏱️ 66 minutes

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0:00.0

So you're back from Hawaii, right?

0:02.1

Yeah, it was a quick trip, very quick trip.

0:04.0

Went to support my friend on his 40th birthday.

0:08.6

It's a really neat place, isn't it?

0:10.8

I had no idea.

0:12.8

What stunned me maybe the most about it was the majority of Maui looks like kind of scruppy

0:20.0

southeastern California kind of territory. Then you get a little bit of bamboo forest

0:25.5

and a little bit of what you'd expect.

0:28.0

A little bit of Ireland.

0:29.2

At the northwest coast of Maui, it looks like Ireland or like

0:33.9

Western UK. It's a strange place, man. Beautiful.

0:37.6

Yeah, it's awesome.

0:39.1

What was your main takeaway?

0:41.6

Well, okay, I warned you about this a little bit that I had a question coming out of this

0:45.8

that I wanted to bounce off you.

0:47.1

And so I'll just spring it here.

0:49.5

The main takeaway was I flew over all of this ocean and I kept looking out the window

0:54.4

and seeing nothing but ocean forever.

0:57.2

I'm a little bit familiar with the geography of the Pacific.

1:01.9

And I just got to thinking, how did people find this place?

1:08.0

I have the luxury of being at whatever 35,000 feet.

1:10.9

And I couldn't point you in the right direction.

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