also OOP is https://fops.cloud/users/N33R
I enjoy her posts quite a lot, they’re pretty funny
edit: oh I forgot to mention I’m @[email protected], I was just on this account because federation issues which seem to be worked out now 🤷♀️
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And somehow we would still have US americans tell us, that pangea is too big for a usable railway network.
it would also be incredibally hot inland too.
Companies would still make flying around the waterworld the default. Claiming “sound issues” for the people below…
Dumb question, but would Pangea be flat? Or would it still have the mountains that form by the continents colliding?
Not dumb question, yes there were some of the mountain ranges we have today were a part of it.
Factorio/TTD player spotted.
Or civ 3 player. Railroads made movent cost zero and we’re op on the pangea map
In some millon of years we have it again.
Not worth risking, being on same continent as americans.
As a pro, there would be hardly any invasive species. But, imagine all the Australian venemous things in your backyard!
All of that would have been Mongolia long before European colonizers ever got a chance to genocide the new world natives.
An alternate history of the world if it was still pangea would be a wild book.
Statistically it’s much more likely to get invaded if you are on a different continent from them.
Who wants to live that close to the US?
Do you fuck wit pangaea?
it was a simpler time
Being landlocked would suck.
So much easier to war!
Supposedly in 250 million years, there will be another supercontinent dubbed Pangea Ultima. It’s expected to be inhospitable and wipe out all mammals, so not sure who would be around to build or ride such a future train. Supercontinents suck, as interesting as they may sound.
I feel any predictions on a timescale of millions of years is completely pointless. The assumption is always that you can just look at natural processes and assume that things will continue naturally.
Except we’re already in the Anthropocene! The Earth no longer evolves naturally; it evolves according to our actions. And our abilities only increase with time. Even the position of the continents is something we can control if we want it badly enough. And eventually, as human capabilities increase, eventually even controlling the position of continents becomes a rather modest infrastructure project. It all depends on the scale and abilities of your civilization.
Hell, I don’t even agree with predictions about the lifespan of the Sun. Stellar engineering is in principle possible, and we have many millions of years to figure it out. Really, it’s not technically challenging; it’s just a problem of scale.
So no. I don’t think a supercontinent will form and wipe out humanity, unless we will such a thing to be so. And I’m not even assuming the future is all rosy. We could have a nuclear war, rebuild ourselves from the ashes, and repeat that until we burn through all the uranium, and we would STILL have millions of years to solve these very long term issues.
Conservatives: “See??? Why on EARTH should we invest in rail now when it’s just going to be broken up by continental drift in 200 million years? It’s woke liberal tax and spend waste!”
Where did these mountains end up???
The image is of a hypothetical future Pangea not the original, so those mountains would form due to re-collision of Europe and North America.
Oh great, so in a hundred million years Iceland is going to be crushed? We should be thinking about evacuating the puffins.
