Imagine the high speed rail opportunities
literally said the same thing.
Let’s hope in 250 mio. years we have better technology.
In 250 mio.years Humans remains only as fossils.
better than train?
It’s good to know Brexit is only temporary.
The world will be covered with a whole new set of life forms, humans will be long gone, and there will be no evidence that we ever existed.
They’ll be fossils and a band of pollution akin to the oxygen catastrophe.
A thin layer in the fossil record of iron oxide, microplastic particles, and the occasional Nokia phone.
Nokia phone, The new Rosetta Stone
I hope at least some info about how we all died out of the greed of the few and inability of many to understand who the real enemy is will survive
Get used to the fact that it won’t.
We’ll be turned to oil!
The mongols would rule the shit out of this supercontinent
Hail Ming!
Yuan
Everybody’s 🇺🇸, they just don’t know it yet
Imagine the high speed rail network 🤤
fyi there are many proposals for future continents, it’s basically unknowable
Sure, but its fun to speculate!
The English language has words and grammar for speculation, “will” is not one of them.
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Sorry I was being unecessary obnoxious. I just meant they could have written it saying “this could happen” rather than presenting it as “this will happen.”
I’m just really triggered lately by everything online being exaggerated for clicks.
Appalachia out here like “it’s been long enough. it’s time i got huge again”
Building a wall to prevent other continents from invading America?
“The South will rise again” folks were right. They just had a much longer timeline than we imagined.
Okay, but are we gonna talk about how Lagos, Nigeria will become a ski resort town?
I thought the pacific was getting smaller and the Atlantic was getting larger? I would expect the America’s to meet with east Asia.
Okay. Glad I’m not the only one and I can’t believe I had to scroll so far.
This scenario is one possible projection; it assumes the eventual development of a subduction zone in the West Atlantic that would overcome the spreading at the mid Atlantic ridge, eventually sealing the basin. I don’t understand the mechanisms well enough to know how that prediction was made, so someone with more experience on the subject can chime in.
I’m, unfortunately, likely in the same boat, as far as expertise is concerned. I have a degree in geochemistry, and I agree with your analysis of the assumptions made to produce this model, but all of the projections I’ve seen until this one suggested the closing of the pacific basin.
Consider that much of the pacific mid-ocean ridge (the only thing preventing the closure of the pacific basin) is already being actively subducted under the eastern pacific boundary. Think about that: the spreading boundary itself is being subducted. This makes one wonder how it would be conceivable that the pacific basin widens in the future, despite the vast majority of the world’s active subduction boundaries being along the pacific rim.
That stood out to me, too; I wonder if that model assumes the shrinkage of the Pacific reverses when the Atlantic starts to close. strange. I also didn’t see them try to account for the rifting in Africa, perhaps they assume that will fail to complete like the North American one did
Im gonna guess, from your response, you have the most experience on the subject of anyone we will find in this thread.
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From what the wikipedia page tells, under this hypothesis atlantic will stop widening in about 125 millions years, and begin to shrink.
Florida stuck it in Africa and made the new highest point.
And people say sell your Florida beachfront property!
I guess no point in climbing Mount Everest if it’s not going to be the tallest in 250M years. That’s a relief.
We aren’t going to be around to see it. Shit, the way we’re doing things nothing else will be around to see it either.
Solves the Florida problem at least.
