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[–] ekky@sopuli.xyz 0 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 0 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Numenera is actually (mostly) set on a far future Earth in which the continents have moved to form a new pangaea. 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!

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 0 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Pangea is the name of only one supercontinent. The others have other names.

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 0 points 18 hours ago

Good point! I think I saw the name "Pangaea Proxima" and forgot that they weren't all variations on that

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[–] ghost_towels@sh.itjust.works 0 points 19 hours ago

That’s exactly what I was thinking! Going to save it for my daughter’s games.

[–] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 23 hours ago (5 children)

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

[–] HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 0 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

It's, strangely, pretty much where you left it, right between India and Africa.

[–] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 23 hours ago

lmao I kind of see it now, it appears the Arabian peninsula is no longer a peninsula but a tiny bump. Oh well good to know I wasn't erased

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 0 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 22 hours ago

collapsed inline mediaA person disintegrating

yup I noticed the arabian peninsula has become a sad little bump next to India lol, thank you though

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 0 points 22 hours ago

Yes. No state solution persisted.

Probably around Cairo

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[–] Cube6392@beehaw.org 0 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] i_love_FFT@jlai.lu 0 points 22 hours ago

Building a wall to prevent other continents from invading America?

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 0 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

The mongols would rule the shit out of this supercontinent

[–] TwodogsFighting@lemdro.id 0 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] sirico@feddit.uk 0 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Imagine the high speed rail opportunities

literally said the same thing.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 0 points 22 hours ago (3 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.

[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 0 points 22 hours ago

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

[–] Quantumantics@fedia.io 0 points 21 hours ago (2 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.

[–] Sc00ter@lemmy.zip 0 points 18 hours ago

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

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From what the wikipedia page tells, under this hypothesis atlantic will stop widening in about 125 millions years, and begin to shrink.

[–] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 0 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Paris and Rome are west of London lol

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 0 points 22 hours ago

You know what, fuck you. un-exits your br

[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 0 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Why does this look like the Earth Kingdom?

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 0 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Avatar takes place 250 million years in the future.

[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 0 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

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

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[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 0 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] gnutrino@programming.dev 0 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Note it doesn't say they're still populated...

We have to survive, imagine the high speed trains of the future!!!!

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[–] Pandantic@midwest.social 0 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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

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[–] moakley@lemmy.world 0 points 22 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.

Imagine the high speed rail network 🤤

[–] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 0 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Harvey656@lemmy.world 0 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

Sure, but its fun to speculate!

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[–] Donkter@lemmy.world 0 points 21 hours ago

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

[–] Codpiece@feddit.uk 0 points 20 hours ago

Americans still won’t want to visit anywhere else…

[–] modifier@lemmy.ca 0 points 20 hours ago

Solves the Florida problem at least.

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 0 points 19 hours ago

Seasons Greasons!

[–] absquatulate@lemmy.world 0 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Tamriel! Or at least Cyrodiil+Elsweyr

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

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.

I DMed a D&D campaign a few years ago for which I drew a map that was just North America with the water level up 300 meters and rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise. Nobody noticed it after I let the characters discover the map.

[–] aamram@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

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

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[–] JillyB@beehaw.org 0 points 18 hours ago

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

[–] PodPerson@lemmy.zip 0 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

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

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[–] burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 0 points 17 hours ago

LOOK OUT! AAAAGGHHHH

[–] Chivera@lemmy.world 0 points 22 hours ago

Can't wait!!!

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 0 points 16 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.

[–] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 0 points 15 hours ago

It's good to know Brexit is only temporary.

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