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[–] 80 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    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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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)
  • 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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  • [–] 65 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Sure, but its fun to speculate!

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 63 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The mongols would rule the shit out of this supercontinent

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  • [–] 60 points 1 year ago

    It's good to know Brexit is only temporary.

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  • [–] 50 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    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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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    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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  • [–] 47 points 1 year 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.

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  • [–] 42 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (8 children)

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

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    [–] 16 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

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

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Tamriel! Or at least Cyrodiil+Elsweyr

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

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

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago

    Solves the Florida problem at least.

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  • Imagine the high speed rail network 🤤

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    At least Trump have his wall.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Okay, but are we gonna talk about how Lagos, Nigeria will become a ski resort town?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Scandinavia south of Paris.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Imagine the high speed rail opportunities

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Americans still won’t want to visit anywhere else…

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Can't wait!

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    That Americas-Africa-Antarctica triple point is gonna be 🔥🔥🔥🔥 I just know it

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

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

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Why does this look like the Earth Kingdom?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Avatar takes place 250 million years in the future.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    The half animals must be mutants due to WW3 fallout /j

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year 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.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Paris and Rome are west of London lol

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    [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Seasons Greasons!

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  • [+] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)
    [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Can't wait!!!

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

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

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