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[–] germtm_@lemmy.world 67 points 1 year ago (2 children)

really makes you wonder if every continent were a part of a giant landmass. πŸ€”

[–] admiralteal@kbin.social 60 points 1 year ago

...definitely not those two coasts though.

[–] nomadland@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Also known as β€œPangea”

[–] EisFrei@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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 1 year ago (1 children)

You might want to take another look at this map

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 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

What are you doing step-continent?

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 20 points 1 year ago

Well, this image is flat so... makes sense to me! πŸ™ƒ

[–] TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago
[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago

Sure, let's do it

[–] capital@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago
[–] blahsay@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Bad touch Florida!

[–] DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago

Comfy if true

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

Kinda looks like a sweet nuzzle.

[–] eatham@aussie.zone 4 points 1 year ago

Amerstaylia

Is this how baby islands are born?

[–] Declamatie@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Fleur__@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year 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