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proof that civilization is mostly a group project nobody volunteered for.
means A person stranded somewhere remote and isolated, especially shipwrecked on an island, with no easy way home.
from A plain English compound, literally one who has been 'cast away' — thrown off or discarded. 'Cast' came from Old Norse 'kasta,' meaning to throw or fling, which Norse seafarers handed to English along with much of its nautical vocabulary. The maritime sense — a sailor pitched onto a shore by storm or wreck — is the one that stuck, though the word also kept a broader meaning: anything or anyone tossed aside as worthless. Both senses share the same bleak motion of being flung out and left.
- real record
- Japanese soldier hid in jungle 28 years post-WWII
- volleyball
- Wilson the prop now sells for thousands
- longest survival
- José Salvador Alvarenga drifted 438 days at sea
- diet shift
- many survived on raw turtle blood for hydration
- word origin
- originally meant a ship deliberately wrecked, not stranded sailor
robinson crusoe — fictional character shipwrecked on an island for 28 years in daniel defoe's 1719 novel
tom hanks cast away — 2000 film where the protagonist is stranded on a pacific island for 4 years
alexander selkirk — scottish sailor marooned on juan fernández islands off chile from 1704-1709, inspiration for robinson crusoe