Comment on Those moutains are so quaint

• wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That’s kind of awesome to think about.

  I’m picturing myself on Pangea. The mountains in front of me are taller than the Himalayas today. These are the Appalachians. Oh no, a dinosaur! Look out, duck! Huh, that’s not a duck that’s a QUETZALCOATLUS! Everybody run! How can we outrun a QUETZALCOATLUS?!?!?! AAAHHHHHH.

  Isn’t it beautiful?

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  • DoubleDongle@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Wikipedia says they date back 480 million years, during the Ordovician period. I think the atmosphere would have been pretty breathable, but plants wouldn’t conquer the land in a serious way for at least another 60 million years or so, with bugs following them. Nothing saw those mountains. If you time-traveled to the Pangean mountains, you would be the only being to ever observe them in their formative years. Eons would pass before the first plant set root at their feet. The sterile and desolate emptiness would be beyond human experience.

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    • Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      The couple of people who’ve been on the moon have seen that kind of emptiness

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    • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I think the atmosphere would have been pretty breathable

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      HELLA breathable bruh…

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      • Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        Did you just snap a pic in your uni’s hallway

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    • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      but plants wouldn’t conquer the land in a serious way for at least another 60 million years or so
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      Eons would pass before the first plant set root at their feet.

      Pretty sure the mountains will still be there. Spoiler alert. I started at the end of the book.

      you would be the only being to ever observe them in their formative years.
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      The sterile and desolate emptiness would be beyond human experience.

      That’s badass though. Except that we might be returning to that sterile and desolate emptiness here shortly.

      Also, don’t forget that fungi, algae, and lichen colonized dry land before the plants arrived, paving the way for them by eating rocks and pooping dirt.

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• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  And through it all, the mountains can all agree…trump is the biggest piece of shit they’ve ever heard of.

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• ChicoSuave@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  And as old as that is, sharks are older than the mountains.

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  • rockerface@lemmy.cafe ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Sharks are older that the North Star. Not as in Polaris wasn’t pointing north yet when the sharks evolved, but as in it hadn’t formed yet.

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