• DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    4 hours 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.

  • PodPerson@lemmy.zipEnglish
    11·
    5 hours ago

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

  • JillyB@beehaw.orgEnglish
    7·
    5 hours ago

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

    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      5·
      4 hours 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.

      • blackbrook@mander.xyzEnglish
        1·
        2 hours ago

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

          • blackbrook@mander.xyzEnglish
            1·
            5 minutes ago

            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.

  • moakley@lemmy.worldEnglish
    36·
    9 hours 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.

  • jaybone@lemmy.zipEnglish
    37·
    10 hours 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
      24·
      8 hours 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.

      • wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        2 hours 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 I’m the future, despite the vast majority of the world’s active subduction boundaries being along the pacific rim.

      • Sc00ter@lemmy.zipEnglish
        8·
        5 hours ago

        Im gonna guess, from your response, you have the most experience on the subject of anyone we will find in this thread.

    • ramble81@lemmy.zipEnglish
      17·
      9 hours ago

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

    • Skua@kbin.earth
      15·
      9 hours 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!