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[-] obelix@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

And the UK is still in the middle at the top…

[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 4 points 5 days ago

Jupiter from the Planets Suite intensifies.

[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 4 points 5 days ago

I just feel like removing La Manche between England and France won’t end well.

[-] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 days ago

Can't wait!

[-] catty@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

LIES! The continents are going to fall off the edge of the world. Everyone knows that.

[-] ekky@sopuli.xyz 82 points 1 week ago

Imma use this as world map for my next Pen&Paper campaign.

[-] Skua@kbin.earth 27 points 1 week ago

Numenera is actually (mostly) set on a far future Earth in which the continents have moved to form a new ~~pangaea~~ supercontinent. It's actually way too far in the future for it to be this one, and there has been a whole bunch of continent-scale terraforming at some point, but still!

[-] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 week ago

Pangea is the name of only one supercontinent. The others have other names.

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

I had an Archaeology prof who had a "Reunite Gondwanaland" bumper sticker on his car. I was riding with him one time when a redneck in a big truck pulled up next to us, stuck his head out of his window and yelled "yo, fuck Gondwanaland!" and roared off.

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[-] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 66 points 1 week ago

fyi there are many proposals for future continents, it's basically unknowable

[-] Harvey656@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

Sure, but its fun to speculate!

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[-] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 65 points 1 week ago

The mongols would rule the shit out of this supercontinent

[-] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 63 points 1 week ago

It's good to know Brexit is only temporary.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip 51 points 1 week ago

I thought the pacific was getting smaller and the Atlantic was getting larger? I would expect the America’s to meet with east Asia.

[-] Quantumantics@fedia.io 33 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] Sc00ter@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 week ago

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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[-] ramble81@lemmy.zip 19 points 1 week ago

Okay. Glad I’m not the only one and I can’t believe I had to scroll so far.

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[-] moakley@lemmy.world 48 points 1 week ago

I guess no point in climbing Mount Everest if it's not going to be the tallest in 250M years. That's a relief.

[-] aamram@lemmy.dbzer0.com 45 points 1 week ago

Apparently New Zeland is still off the map... Just like nowadays.

[-] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

New Zealand is the Gen X of countries.

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[-] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 29 points 1 week ago

It's comforting to see that the large cities will still exist in 250 million years.

[-] gnutrino@programming.dev 12 points 1 week ago

Note it doesn't say they're still populated...

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[-] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 1 week ago

what the fuck where is the middle east, did we get erased ??? ^/s^

[-] HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago

It's, strangely, pretty much where you left it, right between India and Africa.

[-] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 week ago

lmao I kind of see it now, it appears the Arabian peninsula is no longer a peninsula but a tiny bump. Oh well good to know I wasn't erased

[-] Skua@kbin.earth 13 points 1 week ago

The prediction here is that Africa moves westward, squashing the Arabian peninsula into the south coast of the Iranian plateau. The Arabian peninsula becomes the coastline between India and Africa

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[-] PodPerson@lemmy.zip 24 points 1 week ago

Pacific Ocean feeling pretty smug right now about maintaining its status as the largest ocean.

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[-] Cube6392@beehaw.org 20 points 1 week ago

Appalachia out here like "it's been long enough. it's time i got huge again"

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[-] Pandantic@midwest.social 18 points 1 week ago

Florida stuck it in Africa and made the new highest point.

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Imagine the high speed rail network 🤤

[-] modifier@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 week ago

Solves the Florida problem at least.

[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

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

[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Get used to the fact that it won't.

[-] catty@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

We’ll be turned to oil!

[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 week ago

They'll be fossils and a band of pollution akin to the oxygen catastrophe.

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week ago

A thin layer in the fossil record of iron oxide, microplastic particles, and the occasional Nokia phone.

Nokia phone, The new Rosetta Stone

[-] sirico@feddit.uk 15 points 1 week ago

Imagine the high speed rail opportunities

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[-] Codpiece@feddit.uk 14 points 1 week ago

Americans still won’t want to visit anywhere else…

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[-] MarriedCavelady50@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 week ago

Everybody’s 🇺🇸, they just don’t know it yet

[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 week ago

At least Trump have his wall.

[-] JillyB@beehaw.org 11 points 1 week ago

"The South will rise again" folks were right. They just had a much longer timeline than we imagined.

[-] absquatulate@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

Tamriel! Or at least Cyrodiil+Elsweyr

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[-] Donkter@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

Cradle of civilization is going to be lit around the Indian ocean. It's like a super Mediterranean.

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