USA if suddenly in this scenario seeing so many “brown” countries so close:
Bring it back
Submitted 2 months ago by Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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okwhateverdude@lemmy.world 2 months ago
lime@feddit.nu 2 months ago
m4ylame0wecm@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Yeah all those poor Floridians
alpine_jim@piefed.social 2 months 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 2 months ago
northertech@fedia.io 2 months 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 2 months ago
Yeah, this appears to be for entertainment purposes only.
onlyhalfminotaur@lemmy.world 2 months ago
NEERRRRRRRRD
Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I don’t know my time lines, but I thought the Great Lakes where relatively newer.
BigDiction@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
The land of the rising sun becomes the land of the setting sun.
infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
Is the other half of earth just a big ocean? Or what?
Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
No, thats where the giants live.
OwOarchist@pawb.social 2 months 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 2 months ago
I mean, the Earth currently is 71% ocean.
RunawayFixer@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months ago
Sweet, is there one that does the future?
RunawayFixer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRVkB2daFjM It’s promising to be cozy, we’ll all be snuggled up again.
basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Yes, but you’ll have to be killed after you visit it
justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io 2 months 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 2 months ago
With my high-school tectonic plate knowledge, they were probably more ocean, or much wider and flatter.
jaaake@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
What should we call the mysterious continant on the dark side of pangea? It should evoke an aire of mystery.
humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Not sure if troll, too lazy to respond just in case.
jaaake@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months ago
lol get rotated commies
daggermoon@piefed.world 2 months ago
Bring back Pangea
nodiratime@lemmy.world 2 months ago
No thanks, the americans are way too close.
daggermoon@piefed.world 2 months ago
We’re even closer. I’m in your walls.
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Brazil now has at least 16 more countries on their border, and none of them speak Portuguese.
Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
And somehow Chile didn’t lose any of its coastline.
MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Angola and Equatorial Guinea???
PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space 2 months ago
I guess that would make Brazil the country with the most land borders to other countries.
someguy3@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’ve seen a gif of this and it’s funny how India just floats its way to China.
saimen@feddit.org 2 months ago
So Canada joining the EU does actually make sense
thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Imagine the railroads
db_null@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Proof it was flat then too!!1
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 2 months ago
East Africa splitting from the continent and the resulting strip of lakes is a relatively recent phenomenon.
_stranger_@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Hey, my favorite fishing spot survived!
basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Reunite Russia and Alaska
phtheven@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months ago
South african is basically spooning brazil.
basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Not the country
tetris11@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Sing it back
mirshafie@europe.pub 2 months 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 2 months ago
Finally a solution to the continent loneliness crisis.
gigastasio@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
“Just the tip, I promise.” - Greenland to Portugal
Dicska@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Weird thing for a currently landlocked country to have a beach there.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Wow! So THAT’S what it looked like.
xSikes@feddit.online 2 months ago
The toll prices through Spain and France would be nuts.
bampop@lemmy.world 2 months ago
But it’s easier to avoid Switzerland now so that evens out.
dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 2 months ago
where Australia go
anotherpos@feddit.online 2 months ago
This is interesting
jdr@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Ok
Agent641@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Imagine the fucking train network we could have had!