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Pangaea Proxima (mander.xyz)
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[-] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 62 points 4 days ago

It's good to know Brexit is only temporary.

[-] obelix@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

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

[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 4 points 2 days ago

Jupiter from the Planets Suite intensifies.

[-] ekky@sopuli.xyz 82 points 4 days ago

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

[-] Skua@kbin.earth 27 points 4 days 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 4 days ago

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

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days 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 4 days ago

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

[-] Harvey656@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago

Sure, but its fun to speculate!

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[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 4 points 2 days ago

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

[-] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 65 points 4 days ago

The mongols would rule the shit out of this supercontinent

[-] aamram@lemmy.dbzer0.com 45 points 4 days ago

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

[-] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago

New Zealand is the Gen X of countries.

As it is written in the ancient texts.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip 51 points 4 days 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 4 days 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 4 days 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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[-] wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

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.

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[-] ramble81@lemmy.zip 19 points 4 days 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 4 days 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.

[-] PodPerson@lemmy.zip 24 points 4 days ago

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

[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

And the Pacific Rim? It's the only rim, baby!

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[-] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 29 points 4 days ago

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

[-] gnutrino@programming.dev 12 points 4 days ago

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

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[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days 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.

[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 22 points 3 days ago

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

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 37 points 3 days ago

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

Nokia phone, The new Rosetta Stone

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[-] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 4 days ago

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

[-] HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 26 points 4 days ago

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

[-] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 4 days 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 4 days 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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[-] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago

Can't wait!

[-] modifier@lemmy.ca 18 points 4 days ago

Solves the Florida problem at least.

Imagine the high speed rail network 🤤

[-] Cube6392@beehaw.org 20 points 4 days 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 4 days ago

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

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[-] Codpiece@feddit.uk 14 points 4 days ago

Americans still won’t want to visit anywhere else…

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[-] sirico@feddit.uk 15 points 4 days ago

Imagine the high speed rail opportunities

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[-] JillyB@beehaw.org 11 points 4 days ago

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

[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago

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.

[-] absquatulate@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago

Tamriel! Or at least Cyrodiil+Elsweyr

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 4 days ago

this made me realize how great this map would be for an alternate history or fantasy setting

the mountain range between north america and africa creates the super interesting situation where the sides are almost entirely separated save for the coast and a teensy tiny bit near cape town that's sort of crossable, so the coast would see an insane amount of traffic and i could see there being a capital nestled in the mountains next to the passage to cape town.
And of course the indian ocean would be where basically everyone lives, as others have said.

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[-] Donkter@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago

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

[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 12 points 4 days ago

At least Trump have his wall.

[-] MarriedCavelady50@lemmy.ml 12 points 4 days ago

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

The worldbuilder in me sees a land of intelligent animals who live in a land strewn across with ancient human ruins.

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