It's definitely not pangea. For one, South America and Africa are not connected (which is the one thing everyone knows about plate tectonics). However what initially jumped out to me was India and the Himalayas (which are a relatively recent geological event).

We can do the structures now, and wait for them to match like legos by themselves

If every country would just build for the future Mother Nature will eventually finish the connections.

So what you’re saying is, we have a chance?

AUSTRALIA IS GONNA COLIDE WITH SOUTH AMERICA? NO WAY WE GONNA HAVE SUPER DUPER MEGA SPIDERS

The factory needs more land

As much as Factorio's map gen algorithm is great for ensuring balanced access to resources and (functionally) infinite sprawl, I would love some handcrafted maps that involve feature scale and fractality (fractalness?) approaching real life. The default map gen is too samey after a certain point and size reached.

. # Pave Pangea.

A sea of asphalt dotted with box stores and “luxury apartments” that are more parking space than living area.

Like Australia?

That empty land would allow for some nice desert crossings. Empty land is easier to develop and you can go faster.

I'm imagine a donut with at least 2 dessert lines but maybe more. Likely a terminal town would appear in the center of the continent to be used for transfers

Oh I just saw the answer to this in the new Dinosaurs doc on Netflix, assuming it’s accuracy. At the beginning of Pangea the center was a desert with only the edges having any plant life, then there was a geologic event I think a large number of super volcanoes that caused a climate shift and there was a million years of hurricanes, when the storms finally subsided Pangea was green all over

Sounds like hell for Sir Mix-a-lot.

Are you just saying that because the center appears to be the Arabian and Sahara deserts?

just 1 more lane bro, we're gonna solve traffic dude just add 1 more lane

Think of all the mega parking lots this bad boy could fit!

The factory must grow. Only took me 7,000 hours to start using trains.

America wouldn't exist in Pangea. There wouldn't be any undiscovered lands to act as The Man in The High Castle

If you just wait for another geological age we will build hyper-gea, I promise.

Did you know: If all the railway lines in the US were joined end to end

2 lines of different sizes

OpenTTD in the wild.

Statistically it's much more likely to get invaded if you are on a different continent from them.

All of that would have been Mongolia long before European colonizers ever got a chance to genocide the new world natives.

An alternate history of the world if it was still pangea would be a wild book.

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Plate tectonics?

The train tracks would have kept the continent from splitting apart

Iceland would like a word.

I feel any predictions on a timescale of millions of years is completely pointless. The assumption is always that you can just look at natural processes and assume that things will continue naturally.

Except we're already in the Anthropocene! The Earth no longer evolves naturally; it evolves according to our actions. And our abilities only increase with time. Even the position of the continents is something we can control if we want it badly enough. And eventually, as human capabilities increase, eventually even controlling the position of continents becomes a rather modest infrastructure project. It all depends on the scale and abilities of your civilization.

Hell, I don't even agree with predictions about the lifespan of the Sun. Stellar engineering is in principle possible, and we have many millions of years to figure it out. Really, it's not technically challenging; it's just a problem of scale.

So no. I don't think a supercontinent will form and wipe out humanity, unless we will such a thing to be so. And I'm not even assuming the future is all rosy. We could have a nuclear war, rebuild ourselves from the ashes, and repeat that until we burn through all the uranium, and we would STILL have millions of years to solve these very long term issues.

WW2 would be a different story...

Not dumb question, yes there were some of the mountain ranges we have today were a part of it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Pangean_Mountains

The image is of a hypothetical future Pangea not the original, so those mountains would form due to re-collision of Europe and North America.

Commenting to watch the federation test, commenting on Lemmy has felt more like yelling into a void than usual.