Imma use this as world map for my next Pen&Paper campaign.
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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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The mongols would rule the shit out of this supercontinent
I thought the pacific was getting smaller and the Atlantic was getting larger? I would expect the America’s to meet with east Asia.
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.
Im gonna guess, from your response, you have the most experience on the subject of anyone we will find in this thread.
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
Okay. Glad I’m not the only one and I can’t believe I had to scroll so far.
From what the wikipedia page tells, under this hypothesis atlantic will stop widening in about 125 millions years, and begin to shrink.
I guess no point in climbing Mount Everest if it's not going to be the tallest in 250M years. That's a relief.
Apparently New Zeland is still off the map... Just like nowadays.
It's comforting to see that the large cities will still exist in 250 million years.
Note it doesn't say they're still populated...
Pacific Ocean feeling pretty smug right now about maintaining its status as the largest ocean.
Appalachia out here like "it's been long enough. it's time i got huge again"
what the fuck where is the middle east, did we get erased ??? ^/s^
It's, strangely, pretty much where you left it, right between India and Africa.
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
alhamdulilah the middle east is now the Middle BEACH baby right there on the Indian Ocean
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.
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
Florida stuck it in Africa and made the new highest point.
"The South will rise again" folks were right. They just had a much longer timeline than we imagined.
Tamriel! Or at least Cyrodiil+Elsweyr
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.
Cradle of civilization is going to be lit around the Indian ocean. It's like a super Mediterranean.
Okay, but are we gonna talk about how Lagos, Nigeria will become a ski resort town?
And the UK is still in the middle at the top…
Imagine the high speed rail opportunities
Let’s hope in 250 mio. years we have better technology.
Americans still won’t want to visit anywhere else…
That Americas-Africa-Antarctica triple point is gonna be 🔥🔥🔥🔥 I just know it
I just feel like removing La Manche between England and France won’t end well.
Why does this look like the Earth Kingdom?
Avatar takes place 250 million years in the future.
The half animals must be mutants due to WW3 fallout /j
250 million years is about 4 to 5 times longer than we had since the mass extinction from the dinosaurs, assume whatever fauna will be there would be radically different than what we have now.
and if there are still humans, they would be very different as well.
It's pretty much a certainty that we won't have any living descendants in 250 million years since no large species ever survive that long. Our own ancestors 69 million years ago were at best mouse-sized.
Unless: we develop some sort of propulsive technology that can accelerate us to very near the speed of light. It's possible we could still be around because of relativistic effects. Poul Anderson wrote a book called Tau Ceti where a spaceship that uses interstellar hydrogen for fuel gets stuck endlessly accelerating and ends up outlasting the collapse of the universe, only being able to slow down and locate a planet to settle on in the next universal cycle.
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.
Paris and Rome are west of London lol
LIES! The continents are going to fall off the edge of the world. Everyone knows that.


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