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Fascinating, Rick. Thanks. Gives new meaning to "crossing your bridges when you come to them."
It makes sense that -- as the linked post says -- due to the technical difficulties and the underpopulation of the region, ferries are simply a better solution.
I know the Amazon is massive. There are places on the river where, if you're on a boat in the middle of it, it feels like being on the ocean -- because both riverbanks are so far away that they're below the horizon and not visible. If I recall correctly, the Amazon plus its tributaries contain more water than all the other rivers on earth combined.
Infidel753 - That is an incredible amount of water!
The whole Amazon Basin is full of interesting technical challenges. The whole region was apparently a garden in pre-Hispanic times, but Eurocentric, non-professional standards of what constitutes civilization are nonexistent.
The effect being that in the 60s, you had anthropologists swearing this is what Pleistocene humans were like (part of the nihilistic "we were always violent, no wonder we're a cancer on this planet" movement of the time), never mind the absolutely horrendous impact of Spain and Portugal. What you have here is not Genesis, but Apocalypse.
(All that and the simpler explanation that war and infanticide are both caused by inadequate resources, the one Darwin himself proposed.)
Anon@7:51am - Modern humans certainly are a cancer on the planet.
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