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[-] germtm_@lemmy.world 66 points 2 years ago

really makes you wonder if every continent were a part of a giant landmass. 🤔

[-] admiralteal@kbin.social 60 points 2 years ago

...definitely not those two coasts though.

[-] nomadland@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

Also known as “Pangea”

[-] EisFrei@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago
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[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's fun to think about all the shit the people who first came up with that idea went through.

today he is most remembered as the originator of continental drift hypothesis by suggesting in 1912 that the continents are slowly drifting around the Earth (German: Kontinentalverschiebung).

Alfred Wegener - his hypothesis was not accepted by mainstream geology until the 1950s, when numerous discoveries such as palaeomagnetism provided strong support for continental drift, and thereby a substantial basis for today's model of plate tectonics

Forty years of "you moron!" and "fuckin' weirdo dweeb" to be proven right in a major shift of academic thinking. And he wasn't even the first to think of it - anyone folding a map back in the days probably had a similar thought. But. The rigid nature of what is allowed to be a fact was . . uh . . different. Then.

[-] paultimate14@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

You might want to take another look at this map

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah yeah, no I get it, just sayin’. It was a huge humiliating effort to get fellow academics to acknowledge it at all. And that’s still true in some areas today.

[-] halvar@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

ye sure but it's australia and the east coast of the US

[-] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago

What are you doing step-continent?

[-] OpenStars@discuss.online 19 points 2 years ago

Well, this image is flat so... makes sense to me! 🙃

[-] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 years ago

Sure, let's do it

[-] capital@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago
[-] blahsay@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Bad touch Florida!

[-] DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 years ago

Comfy if true

[-] eatham@aussie.zone 5 points 2 years ago

Amerstaylia

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

The alarming part is the gun shape missing just south of Maine. Which continent has that weapon right now??

[-] moistclump@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Kinda looks like a sweet nuzzle.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 points 2 years ago

I think they should touch tips. Make that peninsula on Australia meet Florida.

[-] Declamatie@mander.xyz 2 points 2 years ago

Which explains why on both continents they speak English. They were once one culture living on the same land.

[-] Fleur__@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Makes a whole lot more sense as to why Americans built a tall ass tower that makes planes fall out of the sky on Oz's west coast now

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