<story><title>The China Ship</title><url>https://multimedia.scmp.com/culture/article/spanish-galleon/chapter_01.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hevi_jos</author><text>Reading about this always makes me remember how much we stand at the shoulders of giants.&lt;p&gt;Thinking about things like on each of those voyages half the crew will die of Scurvy and other illnesses, for hundreds of years.&lt;p&gt;Now it is going to the moon or Venus, or Mars what requires a significant risk to do, because of danger like radiation or absence of civilization out there.&lt;p&gt;Some day in the future, traveling to Mars will be routine and people would barely think on those that made it possible.&lt;p&gt;How much people think about the incredible thing it is we could travel to the other side of the planet on a single day?</text></comment>
<story><title>The China Ship</title><url>https://multimedia.scmp.com/culture/article/spanish-galleon/chapter_01.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nerdponx</author><text>Cool article. This was one time when I actually wish the article was slightly longer. I came away with only the vaguest sense of what  made the return trip more difficult. Who were the &amp;quot;enemies&amp;quot; in question?</text></comment>