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I enjoy her posts quite a lot, they're pretty funny
edit: oh I forgot to mention I'm @QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works, I was just on this account because federation issues which seem to be worked out now π€·ββοΈ
Not worth risking, being on same continent as americans.
Statistically it's much more likely to get invaded if you are on a different continent from them.
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 βluxury apartmentsβ that are more parking space than living area.
We could all have our own massive driveways for our giant trucks!
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...
We can do the structures now, and wait for them to match like legos by themselves
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).
If every country would just build for the future Mother Nature will eventually finish the connections.
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!"
it was a simpler time
Being landlocked would suck.
Suddenly I want a Pangea Factorio map.
The factory needs more land
So much easier to war!
WW2 would be a different story...
Supposedly in 250 million years, there will be another supercontinent dubbed Pangea Ultima. Itβs 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.
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.
depends. is america building it? thered be 2 lines
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
America wouldn't exist in Pangea. There wouldn't be any undiscovered lands to act as The Man in The High Castle
They'd actually build a pretty extensive and well-functioning one and then dismantle it all under pressure from car manufacturers.
If you just wait for another geological age we will build hyper-gea, I promise.
Did you know: If all the railway lines in the US were joined end to end
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it would help
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.
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
Oh I just saw the answer to this in the new Dinosaurs doc on Netflix, assuming itβs 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?
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
Need me a Pangea openttd map
OpenTTD in the wild.
flat pangea theory
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.
Was there enough fossil fuel to run these trains back then?
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.
See what they took away from us!
they
Plate tectonics?
Psst! Don't say their name too loud. That's bad for the algorithm
They would still be bitching and bickering about it.