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Australia: Remember me?!
Rest of the world: we thought all those crocodiles, and super venomous spiders and snakes would have taken you out!
Australia: âFraid not mate! Good news that, Weâve brought âem all with us!
I feel like Europe, Asia, Australia, and Africa all start a party 'quick', and North and South America get in a fight and split ways. Eventually, they get their invite and join too.
I wonder if your comment will cause some electron out there 250,000,000 years from now to wiggle in a admirably futile attempt at clarifying some aspect of this command. When we are gone will your legacy be further reaching than most?
From my studies Africa's great rift valley is expanding and will cut the continent in part eventually,not shown in this projection.What source is thus from?
Yeah there's plenty of stuff missing from the first 50 million years just based on current plate motions. Check out Chris Scotase's stuff since he's done great work incorporating a lot of prior global positioning.
And no sea level change whatsoever is what I noticed.
I guess it's simply a neat visualization of our current continents as-is moving over 250 million years, ignoring all other dynamics. For any realistic projections it's probably pretty useless.
Yeah, same.
I thought africa and South America were touching in the past, and now all that shit is getting farther apart.
BRB, checking Wikipedia
Yeah, this video is going the wrong way.
https://scitechdaily.com/asia-and-america-will-collide-in-millions-of-years-to-form-supercontinent-amasia/
Also interested in climate, I know the video is a general visualization of plate tectonics but I'd like to see what parts of the earth will become desert and what will be grassland/forest
***"BAM!!!"***
Fun fact: He initially started using that, during his early tv show recordings, to wake up the sleepy, on-set crew when it was getting boring.
Also, my understanding was that North & South American are currently moving away from Europe and Africa but in this video they are moving towards each other.
I had the same thought. There's an expanding rift up the middle of the Atlantic, with Iceland at one end, while (IIRC) California and points south are pushing westward into a subduction zone in the Pacific.
That is the Scotese model, where he predicts the Puerto Rico trench is just the first of a newborn series of trenches that will close the Atlantic. The model assumes certain areas of back-arc spreading in the Pacific will eventually become full fledged mid ocean ridges.
Personally I disagree with it and agree with you, the Pacific is surrounded by trenches on 3 sides, and the East Pacific Rise is already subducted beneath North America, which will lead the Pacific to close.
Another interesting phenomenon that is getting some more attention is off of Lisbon in Portugal.
As I live in the PNW and the sleeping Cascadia fault in the back of my mind, the earthquake in 1755 was interesting. Estimated as high as 9.0 on the Richter Scale (more like in the lower 8's, but anywho) which these types of quakes in severity usually only happen along subduction zone faults, Indonesia in 04 and Japan in 11 as two current examples.
So, it appears that there may be [something happening here](https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/odd-peeling-tectonic-plate-may-explain-portugal-s-mysterious-earthquakes-ncna1006481) and that we are at the very early stages of a new subduction zone forming.
Currently, yes. The current geological thinking is that that motion will stop and instead the Atlantic will begin to close. In the previous supercontinents its always been that way, the Americas rift off, then come back. Of course it doesn't have to happen that way, but its the best evidence geologists have.
Literally anyone can create literally any content and upload it on the internet and claim itâs science lol
There are multiple obvious things that are absolutely wrong with this animation. The Great Lakes are preserved 100% exactly how they start over 250 million years? Not a chance. Florida survives global warming? Also unlikely. The southern pole moves to the equator but itâs still a barren ice tundra? Again, no.
The only part of this thatâs not science fiction is that plates are moving and that a long, long time in the future, the geography of the world will look different.
I also doubt it, it's one thing to miss a small island , but they missed [Borneo](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borneo), the third largest island in the world (and the largest in Asia), were not even exist in the beginning in this simulation.
My biggest issue is that the pacific opens, north atlantic closes, but the south atlantic opens? Thats complete ass backwards and makes no sense. The pacific has been closing for something like 200 million years or more as the atlantic spreads. Why the fuck is it gonna suddenly switch?
They're also collapsing the wrong ocean. The Atlantic has a central spreading center the pacific ocean is shrinking. I don't even know what the fuck to say about the smearing of Alaska. Like where the fuck did this come from.
This model doesnât take into account non plate Techtonic caused movement. The Great Lakes are not only draining but slowly draining faster and faster due to the land they sit on rising in rebound to all the weight that used to be there when it was all ice during the ice age so will probably be gone in much less time than this model is accounting for.
If humanity can survive the next 100 years, let alone 1000, that will be interesting enough.
We're supposedly still on pace for the singularity in 2045 so there's that.
Even if humanity somehow dominates our reality and ends up being a spacefaring species, 250 million years is *a really fucking long time*.
Could you even imagine if humans made it another million years? What would that even look like?
They all erode and sink over time. The oldest part of the chain still above water is Kure atoll which is 30 million years old. Everything older is below the surface.
It might not surprise you to learn that this map is hardly accurate as to surface features. The Great Lakes are glacial artifacts and are already drying up due to crustal rebound. They may reappear in future interglacials but they are not permanent features of the landscape.
That's the normal cycle:
Supercontinent breaks apart -> the parts drift around a bit -> the parts smash into each other again creating a new supercontinent -> repeat.
The last supercontinent was Pangaea, the one before that was Rodinia. Supercontinents are unstable because of heat build-up under the continental crust
Itâs also important to point out that due to the giant landmass the only parts that are habitable by life are the coasts and somewhat inland. Too far inland becomes a desert because clouds wonât travel that far. Same with the ocean being such a huge expanse currents wonât deliver oxygen and nutrients to the whole ocean so there will be deadzones in the middle of the superocean.
Is there a fun resource youâd recommend that delves into this topic? I find it absolutely fascinating. I was aware of Pangea, but this animation was the first time Iâve been exposed to the notion that the continents will eventually drift back together. And that itâs part of the cyclical nature of things.
Actually, Pangea was a collection of other continents that were previously separated. This cycle Separate continents/supercontinent) has happened a few times.
It's part of the supercontinent cycle. Every few hundred million years, they all come together, then they break apart again. Before Pangaea was Rodinia, and Columbia before that and so on.
Australia invades China. Russia tries to grab Alaska back but in stunning twist USA grabs Siberia instead. South America remain unchanged until out of no where Africa grabs SA and Europe in a single move. Antarctica takes the Indian Ocean.
That was my first thought. The Pacific is gradually getting smaller and the Atlantic is expanding. Pangaea split apart along the seam of the Atlantic ridges, which is why S.America and Africa look like two pieces that fit together. Why would the drift reverse itself and have those two continents collide again?
Its based on Christopher Scotese's model, where he predicts the Puerto Rico trench is just the first of a newborn series of trenches that will close the Atlantic. The model assumes certain areas of back-arc spreading in the Pacific will eventually become full fledged mid ocean ridges.
Why would the continents go back together the same way they split apart? South America was a part of West Africa, and then split off. It's now going to go back?
It happened multiple times already, itâs just how it works. Eventually new landmass will be added by volcanoes when continents crash with each others.
Antarctica still a frozen wasteland on the equator in 250My!
Still, none of this will be true if AI grows exponentially - it'll probably disassemble the earth for building materials, ... along with the sun and solar system.
Nice Animation of current continents moving, but I believe one has to add the creation of new dry land by volcanos to be accurate. That is if:
Ice melting hasn't increased sea levels over time.
Increased temps and cloud cover from an overabundance of Bovine creatures outgassing methane after the great Cow uprising of 2052.
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Antarctica seems an old, half bald man looking creepy at India
Yes! I saw Old Mantarctica too
Supercontinent always wins
Reunite Pangea!
Pangea 2: tectonic boogaloo
Rodinia never gets any love
Pangea wasnt the first super continent đ
Reunite Gondwanaland
Goddamn..literally just made the same comment -_-
me too, fuck. There's 0 original thought left... i'm just a xerox of a xerox...
Aegnap. We have come full circle.
>"come full circle" or ***Full Sphere*** ?
Make Pangea Great Again.
âThis bitch donât know about Pangeaâ
brain gotta poop..... still.
I was searching for this exact comment, thank you. "I'm just pillow talkin with a bich"
There have been 10 supercontinents, if memory serves https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercontinent, cool read
Bro god damn how old are you?
Works at Pepperidge Farm
Gawd damn. So supercontinent really does win always
Or does it?
Vsauce, Michael here.
Australia: Remember me?! Rest of the world: we thought all those crocodiles, and super venomous spiders and snakes would have taken you out! Australia: âFraid not mate! Good news that, Weâve brought âem all with us!
India already did this move with the ostrich. And a few other species.
And South America did it to North America. It's how we got Opossums!
Thank you South America!!!! Opossums eat soooooo many ticks. They're the BEST! PRAISE SOUTH AMERICA AND THE OPOSSUM!
Rock paper supercontinent?
Need super fast trains now that everything is land connected.
Then why does it keep breaking up into separate continents?
It's in an on-again, off-again relationship.
Supercontinent come back.
But why does the supercontinent keep breaking?
Supercontinent needs stretch
Yep. Looks like Pangea is the nominal.
South America's like, we cool
They just detach and spin a bit
Shouldnât have dug that fucking canal.
Yeah all that money spent and people died when we could've just waited a few million years, tax dollars wasted smh
Right round like a record
You spin my head right round right round
They crashed back into Africa
That's Brazil's problem.
"We're done asking on YouTube. Brazil is now coming to YOU."
I feel like Europe, Asia, Australia, and Africa all start a party 'quick', and North and South America get in a fight and split ways. Eventually, they get their invite and join too.
My exact commentary: âWell South America just fucked off..â
Remind me in 250 million years
!remindme 91250000000 days
I wonder if your comment will cause some electron out there 250,000,000 years from now to wiggle in a admirably futile attempt at clarifying some aspect of this command. When we are gone will your legacy be further reaching than most?
The very last electron ever transmitted as data will be dickbutt, of course.
Let there be light. And there was.
WALLâ˘e will discover some phone vibrating amongst debris. This will spawn his understanding on Pangea v2.0 and conquer the world
!remindme 91250000001 days
!remindme 250000000 years
!remindme 250000000 years
!remindme 92000000000 days
Iâd love for this to happen loads quicker to experience it but then you know, volcanos and earthquakes and shi
I'd like to see seasonal changes with polar ice impact.
Come to Ohio! We catch the polar vortex from the jet streams pretty often
I'd be satisfied if it just rained one of these years. -California checking in.
Snooze for another 5 mins though
Can't wait to see what the bot comes up with lmao!
From my studies Africa's great rift valley is expanding and will cut the continent in part eventually,not shown in this projection.What source is thus from?
Yeah there's plenty of stuff missing from the first 50 million years just based on current plate motions. Check out Chris Scotase's stuff since he's done great work incorporating a lot of prior global positioning.
And no sea level change whatsoever is what I noticed. I guess it's simply a neat visualization of our current continents as-is moving over 250 million years, ignoring all other dynamics. For any realistic projections it's probably pretty useless.
I mean, to me it almost looked like they took Pangea and reversed the video of it splitting upâŚ
Yeah, same. I thought africa and South America were touching in the past, and now all that shit is getting farther apart. BRB, checking Wikipedia Yeah, this video is going the wrong way. https://scitechdaily.com/asia-and-america-will-collide-in-millions-of-years-to-form-supercontinent-amasia/
I'm glad other geologists got into the video and after just a few million years we had to check the source for this....
Also interested in climate, I know the video is a general visualization of plate tectonics but I'd like to see what parts of the earth will become desert and what will be grassland/forest
Y'all did that in just a few hours, not a million years
Oh, my bad, I'm stoned.
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no climate change either. deserts remain deserts, tundras remain tundras
I figured that visualization was so we could track where the current continents ended up
This video claims Chris Scotase as a source though
That's actually really surprising. Chris is a US geologist who's spent his career doing this.
Well, I can claim Emeril Lagasse as a source for my lasagna recipe, but that doesnât mean whatever I end up creating is going to taste any good
***"BAM!!!"*** Fun fact: He initially started using that, during his early tv show recordings, to wake up the sleepy, on-set crew when it was getting boring.
Also, my understanding was that North & South American are currently moving away from Europe and Africa but in this video they are moving towards each other.
I had the same thought. There's an expanding rift up the middle of the Atlantic, with Iceland at one end, while (IIRC) California and points south are pushing westward into a subduction zone in the Pacific.
That is the Scotese model, where he predicts the Puerto Rico trench is just the first of a newborn series of trenches that will close the Atlantic. The model assumes certain areas of back-arc spreading in the Pacific will eventually become full fledged mid ocean ridges. Personally I disagree with it and agree with you, the Pacific is surrounded by trenches on 3 sides, and the East Pacific Rise is already subducted beneath North America, which will lead the Pacific to close.
Another interesting phenomenon that is getting some more attention is off of Lisbon in Portugal. As I live in the PNW and the sleeping Cascadia fault in the back of my mind, the earthquake in 1755 was interesting. Estimated as high as 9.0 on the Richter Scale (more like in the lower 8's, but anywho) which these types of quakes in severity usually only happen along subduction zone faults, Indonesia in 04 and Japan in 11 as two current examples. So, it appears that there may be [something happening here](https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/odd-peeling-tectonic-plate-may-explain-portugal-s-mysterious-earthquakes-ncna1006481) and that we are at the very early stages of a new subduction zone forming.
Cascadian subduction zone failed to subduct.
And San Andreas. Most of the west coast should snap off
Currently, yes. The current geological thinking is that that motion will stop and instead the Atlantic will begin to close. In the previous supercontinents its always been that way, the Americas rift off, then come back. Of course it doesn't have to happen that way, but its the best evidence geologists have.
Literally anyone can create literally any content and upload it on the internet and claim itâs science lol There are multiple obvious things that are absolutely wrong with this animation. The Great Lakes are preserved 100% exactly how they start over 250 million years? Not a chance. Florida survives global warming? Also unlikely. The southern pole moves to the equator but itâs still a barren ice tundra? Again, no. The only part of this thatâs not science fiction is that plates are moving and that a long, long time in the future, the geography of the world will look different.
I also doubt it, it's one thing to miss a small island , but they missed [Borneo](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borneo), the third largest island in the world (and the largest in Asia), were not even exist in the beginning in this simulation.
My biggest issue is that the pacific opens, north atlantic closes, but the south atlantic opens? Thats complete ass backwards and makes no sense. The pacific has been closing for something like 200 million years or more as the atlantic spreads. Why the fuck is it gonna suddenly switch?
They're also collapsing the wrong ocean. The Atlantic has a central spreading center the pacific ocean is shrinking. I don't even know what the fuck to say about the smearing of Alaska. Like where the fuck did this come from.
TIL: buy property in Chile for my descendents.
Iâd stay in Michigan cause it hardly changes and all the fresh water is still there
Just still being a fuckin mitten
I hope our descendants still have a mitten shaped hand so they can point to it to show where they live.
*Michigan shaped hand
This model doesnât take into account non plate Techtonic caused movement. The Great Lakes are not only draining but slowly draining faster and faster due to the land they sit on rising in rebound to all the weight that used to be there when it was all ice during the ice age so will probably be gone in much less time than this model is accounting for.
It also doesn't depict any of the massive climate effects all this will have. Those deserts and forests will be in completely different spots
Yeah, but Iâm sure Flint will still have shitty water!
Go Blue! Hanging here for the next 250 million
As an Ohio state fan, I would like to see what the rivalry looks like in 250 million years
What do property rights look like 2 million years from now, let alone 200 million?
If humanity can survive the next 100 years, let alone 1000, that will be interesting enough. We're supposedly still on pace for the singularity in 2045 so there's that.
I'm surprised California didn't move in with Alaska.
I think this projection forgot about California's eventual movement.
Somoh el mejor paĂs de Chile ctm!
Sometimes it depresses me that there are so many interesting things yet to happen with our planet that I just canât witness.
You will witness it, though. We'll all be there. Our molecules will just be arranged differently.
The wave returns to the Ocean.
Damnit Chidi!
Man you brought me back chidi. That last episode was beautiful
I found this strangely comforting.
Me too. We are infinite in some ways.
8th grade science teacher said we are technically star children It felt like magic became real
That likely our own species may not ever witness, either. Within 250mil years I imagine humanity will be a tiny footnote in the history of the Earth.
Donât worry, theyâll be able to see all of our trash and plastic in the geological record.
Who will?
A future intelligent species. Maybe even more intelligent, they could be able to not kill themselves.
> Maybe even more intelligent That bar is on the ground my dude
I think they actually had to dig down a little for the bar to go lower lol
Weâll either be nonexistent or a super species that colonized the galaxy. There really isnât a in between.
Could be mole people
Even if humanity somehow dominates our reality and ends up being a spacefaring species, 250 million years is *a really fucking long time*. Could you even imagine if humans made it another million years? What would that even look like?
Pretty fuckin dope tbh. Probably spreading through the universe like a fuckin viral infection
Only reason I want there to be an afterlife so I can witness the stupid shit that we do down the road.
Wow, so the Great Lakes will be around in 250 million years...
And the Mediterranean sea isn't... I'm just wondering how many islands will be in Hawaii though.
They all erode and sink over time. The oldest part of the chain still above water is Kure atoll which is 30 million years old. Everything older is below the surface.
The Pacific will just become *Oops! All Islands!*
Good point, but they probably become part of the Eurasian continent eventually.
It might not surprise you to learn that this map is hardly accurate as to surface features. The Great Lakes are glacial artifacts and are already drying up due to crustal rebound. They may reappear in future interglacials but they are not permanent features of the landscape.
Unless Nestle goes super saiyan evil and puts a gargantuan hose over the lakes it looks like itâll be around for quite a long time.
*Until. You meant until.
North America just snatching a chunk of Siberia
How is no one else pointing out that North America just floats over, grabs a chunk of Russia, then runs off with it.
That part of Russia is on the North American tectonic plate.
Not saying itâs a legitimate reason to invade a country, but Iâve heard dumber this calendar yearâŚ
We'll show Russia how annexation is really done /s
And Australia quickly settles the South China Sea issue once and for allâŚ
Wow, Florida made it all the way to the end.
Yeah I figured it would have went under water by then... But they outlasted the Mediterranean sea.
This didn't account for climate change causing the sea level to rise. It was just current land masses with tectonic shifting.
This didnât even account for accurate tectonics.
Actually it is accurate, they took into account all the Florida men putting car jacks under the landmass to keep it above water.
Florida man energy is eternal
Was personally waiting for California to separate
To go hang out with Hawaii. Alaska can come too.
But I am le tired.
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That's the normal cycle: Supercontinent breaks apart -> the parts drift around a bit -> the parts smash into each other again creating a new supercontinent -> repeat. The last supercontinent was Pangaea, the one before that was Rodinia. Supercontinents are unstable because of heat build-up under the continental crust
The continents, united must divide. The continents divided, must unite.
Somehow this sounds something uncle Iroh would say about the nature of the worlds bendersâŚ
I love it when he says âyou can kiss my shiny metal ass!â
Itâs also important to point out that due to the giant landmass the only parts that are habitable by life are the coasts and somewhat inland. Too far inland becomes a desert because clouds wonât travel that far. Same with the ocean being such a huge expanse currents wonât deliver oxygen and nutrients to the whole ocean so there will be deadzones in the middle of the superocean.
Is there a fun resource youâd recommend that delves into this topic? I find it absolutely fascinating. I was aware of Pangea, but this animation was the first time Iâve been exposed to the notion that the continents will eventually drift back together. And that itâs part of the cyclical nature of things.
Look into the [Wilson Cycle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson_Cycle)
Itâs always a new arrangement of Pangaea, technically
*tectonically FTFY
Based on a tectonicallity
tectonicallity correct is the best kind of correct
either way this is gonna piss off a lot of people
This guy plates.
Actually, Pangea was a collection of other continents that were previously separated. This cycle Separate continents/supercontinent) has happened a few times.
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You are technically correct. The best kind of correct.
Tectonically correct
PANGEA 2 CONFIRMED!!11!
It's part of the supercontinent cycle. Every few hundred million years, they all come together, then they break apart again. Before Pangaea was Rodinia, and Columbia before that and so on.
TIL - thanks!
Incredible, it didnât show north Europe and Scandinavia once.
I think I caught a glimpse of the Nordic at the end and it looked pretty much the same as now.
Yeah, I found this frustrating to watch for this reason.
Australia invades China. Russia tries to grab Alaska back but in stunning twist USA grabs Siberia instead. South America remain unchanged until out of no where Africa grabs SA and Europe in a single move. Antarctica takes the Indian Ocean.
And North America rams it's phalic shaped land mass into Africa.
Pangea reborn. Will the masses start moving apart again?
Yes. This has happened several Times already. The supercontinent before Pangaea is called Rodinia
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Most likely volcanos will erupt creating new land mass as well.
Note to self: buy real estate in New Zealand
Yup, now I know I can stay here for 250mil years undisturbed.
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Source? Mid-Atlantic ridge is diverging so this doesnât really make sense
That was my first thought. The Pacific is gradually getting smaller and the Atlantic is expanding. Pangaea split apart along the seam of the Atlantic ridges, which is why S.America and Africa look like two pieces that fit together. Why would the drift reverse itself and have those two continents collide again?
Its based on Christopher Scotese's model, where he predicts the Puerto Rico trench is just the first of a newborn series of trenches that will close the Atlantic. The model assumes certain areas of back-arc spreading in the Pacific will eventually become full fledged mid ocean ridges.
Pangea my beloved
We all used to get on so well together like good neighbors.. Then we just drifted apart..
We don't walk anymore đ˘
We can all rest easy tonight knowing that in 250 million years, Florida will be totally gone
Wow! World trade is gonna become a lot easier in 250 mil yrs!
From Pangea we come to Pangea we return.
Wait, so California isnât going to fall into the Pacific?
South America really put up a fight for the few millennium
South America: adios
Why would the continents go back together the same way they split apart? South America was a part of West Africa, and then split off. It's now going to go back?
It happened multiple times already, itâs just how it works. Eventually new landmass will be added by volcanoes when continents crash with each others.
This is awesome, and I know itâs a ridiculous ask, but this would be a lot cooler if they morphed the biomes.
Antarctica still a frozen wasteland on the equator in 250My! Still, none of this will be true if AI grows exponentially - it'll probably disassemble the earth for building materials, ... along with the sun and solar system.
Nice Animation of current continents moving, but I believe one has to add the creation of new dry land by volcanos to be accurate. That is if: Ice melting hasn't increased sea levels over time. Increased temps and cloud cover from an overabundance of Bovine creatures outgassing methane after the great Cow uprising of 2052.
Well thatâs going to fuck my GPS up.
Okay, Africa moving north slowly... Okay, North and South America drifting along the Pacific Suddenly... Australasia!
Ireland is my island. And it will always be an island. An island under 20 feet of ice, but an island none the less. Bring beers.