He was just really fucking lucky. Everyone of education knew that the world was round; Columbus's idea was that he could just sail all the way from Europe to India directly. If there hadn't been an unexpected continent in his way, he and his crew would have starved to death long before they reached their goal.
And describing one of the fundamental tenets of science as a good joke doesn't exactly bolster faith in your understanding of the scientific process. Your skin condition is not a measurement of the world's environment.
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