just think of the optimizations!
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And somehow we would still have US americans tell us, that pangea is too big for a usable railway network.
it would also be incredibally hot inland too.
Companies would still make flying around the waterworld the default. Claiming "sound issues" for the people below....
Wait, I can see where the idea of a flat earth in an endless ocean comes from ;->
Dumb question, but would Pangea be flat? Or would it still have the mountains that form by the continents colliding?
Not dumb question, yes there were some of the mountain ranges we have today were a part of it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Pangean_Mountains
Not worth risking, being on same continent as americans.
As a pro, there would be hardly any invasive species. But, imagine all the Australian venemous things in your backyard!
All of that would have been Mongolia long before European colonizers ever got a chance to genocide the new world natives.
An alternate history of the world if it was still pangea would be a wild book.
Statistically it's much more likely to get invaded if you are on a different continent from them.
I think that's not actually Pangea (the past supercontinent), but a rendition of Pangea Proxima (the future supercontinent). So just gotta wait a while...
It's definitely not pangea. For one, South America and Africa are not connected (which is the one thing everyone knows about plate tectonics). However what initially jumped out to me was India and the Himalayas (which are a relatively recent geological event).
We can do the structures now, and wait for them to match like legos by themselves
If every country would just build for the future Mother Nature will eventually finish the connections.
So what youâre saying is, we have a chance?
That's exactly what I'm saying
Suddenly I want a Pangea Factorio map.
As much as Factorio's map gen algorithm is great for ensuring balanced access to resources and (functionally) infinite sprawl, I would love some handcrafted maps that involve feature scale and fractality (fractalness?) approaching real life. The default map gen is too samey after a certain point and size reached.
The factory needs more land
Imagine how much parking there could be. There would be practically no constraint on parking lot size.
. # Pave Pangea.
A sea of asphalt dotted with box stores and âluxury apartmentsâ that are more parking space than living area.
Don't it always seem to go
We could all have our own massive driveways for our giant trucks!
Factorio/TTD player spotted.
Or civ 3 player. Railroads made movent cost zero and we're op on the pangea map
Conservatives: "See??? Why on EARTH should we invest in rail now when it's just going to be broken up by continental drift in 200 million years? It's woke liberal tax and spend waste!"
depends. is america building it? thered be 2 lines
America wouldn't exist in Pangea. There wouldn't be any undiscovered lands to act as The Man in The High Castle
If you just wait for another geological age we will build hyper-gea, I promise.
They'd actually build a pretty extensive and well-functioning one and then dismantle it all under pressure from car manufacturers.
Did you know: If all the railway lines in the US were joined end to end
::: spoiler ... it would help :::
2 lines of different sizes
And not one of each size either. Each having both gauges and several points where you have to switch trains because of a gauge change
i think during Pangea, the center of the land was a big ass desert, and a very dry one, the network would probably look like a doughnut
Like Australia?
Like a smaller Australia, yes.
That empty land would allow for some nice desert crossings. Empty land is easier to develop and you can go faster.
I'm imagine a donut with at least 2 dessert lines but maybe more. Likely a terminal town would appear in the center of the continent to be used for transfers
Oh I just saw the answer to this in the new Dinosaurs doc on Netflix, assuming itâs accuracy. At the beginning of Pangea the center was a desert with only the edges having any plant life, then there was a geologic event I think a large number of super volcanoes that caused a climate shift and there was a million years of hurricanes, when the storms finally subsided Pangea was green all over
did they ever answer who the mama was?
Sounds like hell for Sir Mix-a-lot.
Are you just saying that because the center appears to be the Arabian and Sahara deserts?
Rail network?! That's commie talk. Real patriots would have an interconnected highway system.
just 1 more lane bro, we're gonna solve traffic dude just add 1 more lane
Think of all the mega parking lots this bad boy could fit!
Hell yeah! I love a good mega parking lot!
The factory must grow. Only took me 7,000 hours to start using trains.
Need me a Pangea openttd map
OpenTTD in the wild.
Being landlocked would suck.
it was a simpler time
Nah, we needed to wait for the landmasses to stop moving around first.
The train tracks would have kept the continent from splitting apart
Good point actually.
Iceland would like a word.
See what they took away from us!
they
Plate tectonics?
Psst! Don't say their name too loud. That's bad for the algorithm
In some millon of years we have it again.
So much easier to war!
WW2 would be a different story...
Supposedly in 250 million years, there will be another supercontinent dubbed Pangea Ultima. Itâs expected to be inhospitable and wipe out all mammals, so not sure who would be around to build or ride such a future train. Supercontinents suck, as interesting as they may sound.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/volcanic-supercontinent-pangea-ultima-likely-wipe-out-humans-mammals-250-million-years-study/
I feel any predictions on a timescale of millions of years is completely pointless. The assumption is always that you can just look at natural processes and assume that things will continue naturally.
Except we're already in the Anthropocene! The Earth no longer evolves naturally; it evolves according to our actions. And our abilities only increase with time. Even the position of the continents is something we can control if we want it badly enough. And eventually, as human capabilities increase, eventually even controlling the position of continents becomes a rather modest infrastructure project. It all depends on the scale and abilities of your civilization.
Hell, I don't even agree with predictions about the lifespan of the Sun. Stellar engineering is in principle possible, and we have many millions of years to figure it out. Really, it's not technically challenging; it's just a problem of scale.
So no. I don't think a supercontinent will form and wipe out humanity, unless we will such a thing to be so. And I'm not even assuming the future is all rosy. We could have a nuclear war, rebuild ourselves from the ashes, and repeat that until we burn through all the uranium, and we would STILL have millions of years to solve these very long term issues.
Who wants to live that close to the US?
Do you fuck wit pangaea?
Was there enough fossil fuel to run these trains back then?
They would still be bitching and bickering about it.
I want to see it.
The idea makes me think of The Centerfuge Brain Project where the doctor, talking about a gondola-type⌠ride, says, âpeople would fall asleep, miss their stop, and have another 14 hour ride, and you can imagine the problems that caused.â
Sure, but only for like, 115million years. Then you'd have to deal with it breaking apart for the next 200 million years.
Maybe the dinosaurs had a kick ass railway network
flat pangea theory
Where did these mountains end up???
The image is of a hypothetical future Pangea not the original, so those mountains would form due to re-collision of Europe and North America.
Oh great, so in a hundred million years Iceland is going to be crushed? We should be thinking about evacuating the puffins.
California has always been on the coast.
federation test
Commenting to watch the federation test, commenting on Lemmy has felt more like yelling into a void than usual.
Yeah, seems like federation broke for a couple days. I made a post about it on !main@sh.itjust.works and got this response from one of the admins:
So it seems the problem was on our end, but also exclusive to instances running 0.19.18
It is fully caught up for blahaj and mander, but still catching up for .world
