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Pangaea Proxima

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

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    Can’t wait!

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

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      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!

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

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          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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          Good point! I think I saw the name “Pangaea Proxima” and forgot that they weren’t all variations on that

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      That’s exactly what I was thinking! Going to save it for my daughter’s games.

  • Omega@discuss.online
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    fyi there are many proposals for future continents, it’s basically unknowable

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      Sure, but its fun to speculate!

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        The English language has words and grammar for speculation, “will” is not one of them.

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          ???

          • blackbrook@mander.xyz
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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.

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    The mongols would rule the shit out of this supercontinent

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      Hail Ming!

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        Yuan

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

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      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.

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        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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          deleted by creator

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        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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          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

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

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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.

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

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

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        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

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      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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        A person disintegrating

        yup I noticed the arabian peninsula has become a sad little bump next to India lol, thank you though

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      alhamdulilah the middle east is now the Middle BEACH baby right there on the Indian Ocean

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        Amin ya rabbi 🥰

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