seafarers

Surely these seafarers brought a lot of new ideas and technology with them (such as agriculture).

Distance can be hard to tell at night, but I'd expect professional seafarers to know this basic skill.

Long-term, even remittances from overseas service workers (~$40B) — nurses, engineers, seafarers — are at risk as robotics and autonomy take over.

We have the base game and the Seafarers expansion, and we got a little bored with it.

Only those seafarers who were bold enough to take risks were rewarded.

Philosophers are rather beside the point though: for every famous philosopher, ancient Greece had a million farmers, merchants, seafarers and slaves.

I've just gotten my seafarers medical and my C-1/D visa for a job in shipping.

Recumbent cyclists became seafarers with regular pedal boats ages ago.

Non-antihistamine antiemetics like ondansetron or scopolamine transdermal patches require a prescription from a doctor and therefore aren't commonly used for motion sickness except for occupational seafarers.

Radio nets like the Pacific Seafarers Net allow you to make yourself known so that folks can keep tabs on you (and you them) in case something happens.

These people are the modern day seafarers.

The ancient Greeks proved it was a ball and measured the dimensions of it using mathematics, but the concept of a curved earth was known to seafarers long before that.

The jobs are not going anywhere because of this: "The International Transport Workers’ Federation, the union representing about 600,000 of the world’s more than 1 million seafarers, is opposed."

Their monarchs lived in relatively modest places and their barons had to strike bargains with independent-minded peasants and seafarers." Population of Norway: 5 million Population of Sweden: 10 million Population of Finland: 5 million Population of USA: 315 million That's gotta factor into it at least a little...

It basically amounts to "yes, there are advantages to GMOs, but we haven't found any disadvantages yet, therefore they are unsafe!" This is basically the equivalent of early seafarers being afraid of uncharted waters and writing on their maps "here be dragons".

Settlers (and Seafarers, and Cities & Knights) of Catan is a great game.