It always amazes me how they discovered the names of those things.
We have plenty of time to come up with a new name. “Amasia” sucks.
OMG we need to do something about this right now. Call AlGore and DiCaprio. We need to have a summit so we can convince that Asia’s booming birthrate is causing this continental shift. Call Michael Mann and get a samurai sword graph up as quickly as we can on saveourcontinents.com. There is not one single second to waste! With every newborn cry we hear the continents squeeze just a little bit more. We need to solve this by March of 2012 or we are doomed. Doomed do you hear me?
PING
“You’re gonna need a bigger fence...”
Asia is going to crash into North America? We’d better start working on that airbag right now.
Looks like the game of “Risk” will have to be completely overhauled.
It’s amazing how the earth recycles itself, reshaping itself slowly over long stretches of time.. and think of all the new places to cruise to when this latest one shakes out..
India just breaks off and becomes an island? Where’s that russian airplane guy from India? You’ll have the world’s biggest aircraft carrier! You can have 300 million people sit on the edge and kick their feet in the water to propel it.
“Damnit! The shark got Chaitan! Maybe we can replace him with an Evinrude.”
LLS
How ‘exact’ can this science of determining the location by ‘ancient’ magnetic residuals in rock be when we know that the magnetic poles move, all the time, unpredictably, and may have even ‘flipped’, maybe more than once or twice, or a hundred times during it’s existence in the solar system?
It seems, from text in the article, that scientists believe that all continents are floating islands, free to wander the globe. That all mountain ranges are the product of crashes between ‘continents’ as if they were bumper cars at Disneyland.
Now... if they can explain how the continents or islands, which sit on tectonic plates, can move when the tectonic plates themselves all butt up to one another, and interlock better than the pieces of a puzzle, then I am all ears.
The fact that they get contradictions and wildly different opinions from their own ‘tests’, tells me that they must not have the right ‘methodology’, or that I am very unclear about their ‘concept’.
A concept of a ‘growing’ Earth would make more sense as an explanation of tectonic plate ‘movement’. The existence or non-existence of land masses is mostly due to up and down movement in the crust and the subsequent redistribution of the ‘water’.
To paraphrase Robert DeNiro, from the movie "Meet the Parents," -- "Oh, I'll look forward to that, Greg!"
I'll be too old to care by then!
Bush's Fault, of course
America might not last past this next election yet they’re claiming the name will carry over in a million years?
“Over the next few hundred million years, the Arctic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea will disappear, and Asia will crash into the Americas forming a supercontinent that will stretch across much of the Northern Hemisphere.”
Yes, “across much of the Northern Hemisphere”, and across very little of the Southern Hemisphere, in a formation that looks like an exaggeration of the current, northern-heavy distribution of land and southern-heavy distribution of the seas.
I wonder if geologists and geophysicists have considered and weighed in on any possible geophysical impact (the “wobble” for instance) due to the exaggerated distribution of land and seas between the two hemispheres - north and south. Or, maybe my thinking there is, or could be such a concern, just reflects my ignorance on the topic.
Okay. I'll wait.
Thank heavens we got the heads up soon enough to plan the party!