So a new idea was born, sometimes called the "beachcomber express, " in which the first ex-Africans were seashore dwellers who spread rapidly around the coast of the Indian Ocean, showing an unexpected skill at seafaring to reach Australia across a strait that was at least 40 miles wide.
For instance, is anyone truly surprised to discover that the act of building six nuclear reactors side-by-side on a seashore frequently bedeviled by earthquake-induced tsunamis might not have been a good idea?