Antactica where?
The world if Africa didn't exist
Submitted 8 months ago by sag@lemm.ee to [deleted]
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idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
ignotum@lemmy.world 8 months ago
This map only contains the canon countries, not your OCs (original countries)
idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Map before James Cook DLC
RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
c/mapswithoutevenhalfofaustralia
IndiBrony@lemmy.world 8 months ago
And Japan! Or the Korean peninsula! Or most of Alaska!
Kelly@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Fun fact: The ecosystems of the Amazon Basin rely on around 27.7 million tons of Saharan Dust each year to replace the phosphorus that is washed away by the rains. Without this constant input of nutrients the local soils would have been stripped of needed nutrients and would be unable to support the plants that currently thrive there.
maniii@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Also true for the Indian Monsoon.
grue@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The Amazon rainforest survived the African Humid Period though, so what’s up with that?
Kelly@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It looks like the Amazon region was experiencing less rainfall at the time with a corresponding shift towards drought tolerant species and even savannahs in parts of the region!
earthscience.stackexchange.com/a/2567
With a different rainfall profile the nutrient loss would have been vastly reduced.
teamevil@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I refuse to live in a world with no rhythm
Etterra@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Sea level would be considerably lower, as it would suddenly have a big ass Africa-sized hole to fill.
shasta@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Unless the land didn’t simply disappear but redistributed, raising the ocean floor throughout the Atlantic.
DrCake@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The ultimate solution to sea level rise due to climate change
Professorozone@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Better be careful with this. Gonna give conservatives boners.
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Post this to “Maps that are missing New Zealand”
sag@lemm.ee 8 months ago
WILSOOON@programming.dev 8 months ago
“Look Simba, everything the light touches is our kingdom.”
blub
the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
The Lion King/little mermaid crossover nobody’s been asking for
wetsoggybread@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Im cutious how much lower the ocean’s water level would be t fill in for the missing land because thats a lot of cubic volume and what impact that might have on further revealing existing land due to the lower water levels
MeDuViNoX@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Fleur__@lemmy.world 8 months ago
When the world needed him most, he vanished
Rhaedas@fedia.io 8 months ago
It would be far different if the land mass of Africa had never existed. The whole tectonic movement would have resulted in different arrangements several supercontinents ago, with their own effects on climate and life itself.
But if Africa just blipped off one day, maybe. Then you have to explore what a sudden loss of land would do to the ocean waters rushing in, the change in Earth rotation due to its mass being shifted, lots of other things.
TeddE@lemmy.world 8 months ago
🎶 It’s gonna take a lot to drag me away from you 🎶
🎵 There’s nothin’ that a hundred men or more could ever do 🎵
🎶 I bless the rains in South America 🎶
TriflingToad@lemmy.world 8 months ago
this would also affect currents so much
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
If you showed a bunch of people this map, almost no one would even notice. Only the guy who listens to Die Antwoord would be sad.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
In our current global political and racial environment … Africa exists?
Sir_packsalot2@lemmynsfw.com 8 months ago
Nazis didn’t exist
Draegur@lemm.ee 8 months ago
would be greener on the continents with ice reaching further down because without africa there would be no humans and with no humans there would be no greenhouse emissions and global temperatures would be notably cooler.
alehc@slrpnk.net 8 months ago
You are looking at the wrong continent to disappear for the effect to be noticeable
statista.com/…/world-carbon-dioxide-emissions-by-…
sudneo@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I think the point was that humans come from Africa (as in, as a species).