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2712215 No.2712215 [Reply] [Original]

In the future, continents will have awesome names.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangaea_Ultima

>> No.2712241

Also this,
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2000/ast06oct_1/

>> No.2712280
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>mfw North America collides with Africa

>> No.2712292
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>>2712280
>mfw it collides with Europe too

>> No.2712299

But the Atlantic ocean is GROWING, not shrinking.

>> No.2712317

>>2712299
actually it stays the same size. as one continent bordering the atlantic ocean starts to move away, it is also moving closer to the other side. so one side of the ocean expands, while the other is forced to retract. and so the atlantic ocean will stay the same size, it will just move position.

>> No.2712338

Pangea Ultima IS a pretty cool name.

>> No.2712340
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>>2712215
too bad Pangaea Ultima will never happen. Amasia is what will happen.

>> No.2712400

>>2712340
Pangea Ultima and Super Pacific Ocean sound too cool not to be true.

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http://www.science.org.au/nova/newscientist/104ns_011.htm

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>Britain still an island
>Rule Britannia

>> No.2712443

>>2712434
Pangea Proxima is actually another name for the more awesome name Pangea Ultima

>> No.2712465

>>2712437
You blokes will be frozen to your teacups! Look at your gawdam latitude!

>> No.2712504

You will never live to see a super continent comprising all the world's landmass.

>> No.2712525

>>2712465
That's fine

>> No.2712561

>>2712504
I will if I invent reincarnation.

I'll be climbing the Caribbean Mountains as a Squibbon.