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[–] ekky@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 0 points 1 day 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 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 0 points 1 day 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 1 day ago

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

[–] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 day ago (5 children)

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

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

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

[–] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 day 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 1 day 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 1 day 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 1 day ago

Yes. No state solution persisted.

Probably around Cairo

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[–] Cube6392@beehaw.org 0 points 1 day 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 1 day ago

Building a wall to prevent other continents from invading America?

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

The mongols would rule the shit out of this supercontinent

[–] sirico@feddit.uk 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Imagine the high speed rail opportunities

literally said the same thing.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 day 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 1 day 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 1 day 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.

[–] Sc00ter@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 day 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 1 day ago (1 children)

Paris and Rome are west of London lol

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

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

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

Why does this look like the Earth Kingdom?

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

Avatar takes place 250 million years in the future.

[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

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

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

[–] gnutrino@programming.dev 0 points 1 day 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 1 day ago (1 children)

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

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[–] moakley@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day 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 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] Harvey656@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Sure, but its fun to speculate!

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[–] Donkter@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

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

[–] Codpiece@feddit.uk 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Americans still won’t want to visit anywhere else…

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[–] modifier@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 day ago

Solves the Florida problem at least.

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

Seasons Greasons!

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

Tamriel! Or at least Cyrodiil+Elsweyr

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 day 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.

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

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 1 day ago (2 children)

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

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[–] JillyB@beehaw.org 0 points 1 day ago

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

[–] PodPerson@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 day 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 1 day ago

LOOK OUT! AAAAGGHHHH

[–] Chivera@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

Can't wait!!!

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day 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.

It's good to know Brexit is only temporary.

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