USA if suddenly in this scenario seeing so many “brown” countries so close:
Bring it back
Submitted 1 month ago by Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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okwhateverdude@lemmy.world 1 month ago
lime@feddit.nu 1 month ago
m4ylame0wecm@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Yeah all those poor Floridians
alpine_jim@piefed.social 1 month ago
Iceland shouldn’t be on this, it didn’t exist until ~20 million years ago. Pangaea broke up ~200 million years ago.
Probably lots of others, like most of Japan shouldn’t be labelled either.
Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
northertech@fedia.io 1 month ago
Spain and Portugal are way off. The Appalachians extend to the British Isles and are much older than the mountains in the Iberian peninsula.
Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Yeah, this appears to be for entertainment purposes only.
onlyhalfminotaur@lemmy.world 1 month ago
NEERRRRRRRRD
Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I don’t know my time lines, but I thought the Great Lakes where relatively newer.
BigDiction@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The Great Lakes were filled up by the retreating glaciers of the most recent ice age but most of the deep parts are hundreds of millions years old.
Carl@anarchist.nexus 1 month ago
Japan actually made me laugh, simply because the entire country somehow walked all the way around to the other side of the continent.
skisnow@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
It’s in the same place relative to China and Russia. It’s not clear how much of that is because this isn’t a Mercator projection, how much of it is tectonic shift, and how much of it is questionable choices on OOP’s part. Some lat/long markers would have helped
Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
The land of the rising sun becomes the land of the setting sun.
infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
Today: Nothing but ocean in front of the US west coast.
Back then: Nothing but ocean in front of the US west coast.
DarkSirrush@piefed.ca 1 month ago
I’m actually pretty sure the west coast wouldn’t exist, didn’t the Rockies get formed by the pacific plate hitting the North American plate while pangea was unforming?
9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Is the other half of earth just a big ocean? Or what?
Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
No, thats where the giants live.
OwOarchist@pawb.social 1 month ago
Yeah. Just a single vast expanse of ocean that makes the modern-day Pacific look small and cramped. Just think how lonely it would be in a boat on the other side of the earth…
Oh, and the hurricanes will be absolutely gargantuan sometimes, having such a large ocean to strengthen over before finally hitting land.
AmyAye@nord.pub 1 month ago
I mean, the Earth currently is 71% ocean.
RunawayFixer@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The following site has a similar setup: earth at different times with modern borders marked at their approximate locations. dinosaurpictures.org/ancient-earth#400
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Sweet, is there one that does the future?
RunawayFixer@lemmy.world 1 month ago
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRVkB2daFjM It’s promising to be cozy, we’ll all be snuggled up again.
basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Yes, but you’ll have to be killed after you visit it
justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io 1 month ago
Serious question, what would BC through to Colorado look like during Pangea as when work was like this the Rocky Mountains weren't mountains yet.
DarkSirrush@piefed.ca 1 month ago
With my high-school tectonic plate knowledge, they were probably more ocean, or much wider and flatter.
jaaake@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Every time I see Pangea, I have so same thought. Before I say it, I should preface that I know nothing about plate tectonics or geology or planetary physics or any other related science.
Are we sure that’s how it was? I mean the whole one continent and the rest of the globe is ocean. Is there a chance that in addition to the super continent, the planet was also way smaller? Like maybe that continent wrapped around the majority of a smaller sphere instead of just one clump on one side of the current size of the sphere.
cloudshouter@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Yes, they have a very good idea on accuracy. For the record, I was originally a young earth creationist but curiosity got the better of me. Geologists are very obsessive about rocks so it’s just a case of puzzling out what rocks match perfectly despite distance, accounting for things like erosion or volcanoes, and lining up the various ages of rocks for when they were made and when other rocks filled in. Then add fossils to check connections and weather conditions. There is obviously more than this, but it’s something a person can get real deep into.
The planet would not be noticeably different in size. The last time the earth got a noticeable rise in mass we ended up with a moon. There is evidence of objects in the lower mantle that are most likely old sunken tectonic plates, but I don’t recall details.
xia@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
What should we call the mysterious continant on the dark side of pangea? It should evoke an aire of mystery.
humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Not sure if troll, too lazy to respond just in case.
jaaake@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Not trolling, just ignorant on most related sciences.
Honestly, that much continental drift (Pangea to modern geography) seems so unbelievable to me. For some reason it’s easier to wrap my head around the globe expanding from a roughly Pangea sized sphere and the cracks between the continental shelves filling with water as the sphere got bigger.
I feel like to someone who is familiar with this science, this probably sounds like me saying “Yeah, but a flat earth just makes more sense.”
ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
lol get rotated commies
daggermoon@piefed.world 1 month ago
Bring back Pangea
nodiratime@lemmy.world 1 month ago
No thanks, the americans are way too close.
daggermoon@piefed.world 1 month ago
We’re even closer. I’m in your walls.
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Brazil now has at least 16 more countries on their border, and none of them speak Portuguese.
Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
And somehow Chile didn’t lose any of its coastline.
MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
Angola and Equatorial Guinea???
PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space 1 month ago
I guess that would make Brazil the country with the most land borders to other countries.
someguy3@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’ve seen a gif of this and it’s funny how India just floats its way to China.
saimen@feddit.org 1 month ago
So Canada joining the EU does actually make sense
thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Imagine the railroads
db_null@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Proof it was flat then too!!1
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 1 month ago
East Africa splitting from the continent and the resulting strip of lakes is a relatively recent phenomenon.
_stranger_@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Hey, my favorite fishing spot survived!
basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Reunite Russia and Alaska
phtheven@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Having South Africa that close to Argentina seems like a bad idea. I reckon they would both turn out somehow even more racist.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 month ago
South african is basically spooning brazil.
basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Not the country
tetris11@feddit.uk 1 month ago
Sing it back
mirshafie@europe.pub 1 month ago
I find it a bit surprising that almost every major country is mapped to Pangea. Notably Iran is split down the Zagros mountain range.
sundray@lemmus.org 1 month ago
Finally a solution to the continent loneliness crisis.
gigastasio@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
“Just the tip, I promise.” - Greenland to Portugal
Dicska@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Weird thing for a currently landlocked country to have a beach there.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Wow! So THAT’S what it looked like.
xSikes@feddit.online 1 month ago
The toll prices through Spain and France would be nuts.
bampop@lemmy.world 1 month ago
But it’s easier to avoid Switzerland now so that evens out.
dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 1 month ago
where Australia go
anotherpos@feddit.online 1 month ago
This is interesting
jdr@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Ok
Agent641@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Imagine the fucking train network we could have had!