Mirror Earth

[Glen]

Maybe this has already been done, but I found that when I did a mirror image of the Earth, it made for a very surreal experience.

If ASBs flipped the continents like this, what would the results be, I wonder....

[Kurt_Steiner]

We would write from right to left.

[rewster]

Wow... there's actually a lot to consider there, if you think about it. Well, depending on whether the earth rotated the other way or not. If the earth rotated the opposite way, and revolved the opposite direction around the sun, as did all the other planets, then the effect is minimal. We have all the same weather patterns but in reverse, so history could in fact be identical.

If however the earth revolved and rotated the way it does OTL, then the results are wildly unpredictable.
It's really impossible to determine anything about where civilization would have arisen, what animals would exist where, or anything at all. We could postulate that the largest mammals arise in Australia, along with the greatest number of domesticable crops, and the weather on this reversed earth causes Australia to be a wetter climate than OTL. Australia, with its overwhelming superiority in climate and resources, goes on to unite the earth under a single empire by 13000 BC OTL.

[Forum Lurker]

It seems simpler to assume that any given continent has the same set of fauna and flora, but that their regional location alters with the changed biomes.

[rewster]

If the ASB's did that yesterday, life would go on as usual, except within a year drought, floods, and other natural disasters would pretty much screw us all over.

If they did it after the formation of the continents, then yeah, the continents would still have all their same species of animal and plant. However, If they did it a really long time ago before the continents split off, Then who knows.

[Glen]

To this day I find it incredible how different the world looks just mirror imaged!

[Emperor Qianlong]

To this day I find it incredible how different the world looks just mirror imaged!

Thread necromancer! :mad:;)

[Hawkeye]

Here's what whould happen

emperor of iowa: dude what have I been smoken?..... oh yeah pot :D

[Glen]

Thread necromancer! :mad:;)

Yes, I do practice thread necromancy! Resurrection for fun and profit!!!;)

[Gryphon]

Yes, I do practice thread necromancy! Resurrection for fun and profit!!!;)
Dang, that's a good base map, once it's flipped back...

Has anyone tried an upside-down earth? And what would that do?

[WyldCard4]

Is this the same thing as turning it on its head or would there be a difference?

[Glen]

Dang, that's a good base map, once it's flipped back...

Yep, its gone through multiple modifications and is quite useful now. Its unflipped version should be floating around here somewhere....


Has anyone tried an upside-down earth? And what would that do?

Yeah, at some point....

[Count Dearborn]

Dang, that's a good base map, once it's flipped back...

Has anyone tried an upside-down earth? And what would that do?

The world Mondas.:D

[Glen]

The world Mondas.:D

Nice Doctor Who reference....

[Thande]

I made a map based on that a while ago Glen - loosely with the idea that nations are slung down in roughly the same geographical position as though the world was still as it is in OTL, with a bit of ASBery thrown in.

[voidhawk]

We would write from right to left.

And some people would write from left to right?
:p

[DuQuense]

The waters in the Isthmus Sea warm and head north along the California coast, giving Warmth to Alaska and Kamchatka, before heading south to the Rain forests of Japan and Korea.
Then just below the Philippines, the current heads west across the Pacific.
Picking up warmth, during the summer Cyclones form, smashing into the California coast.
Some Cyclones hit farther south, Jumping the Isthmus, they regain shape and power in the warm Caribbean, continuing west till they dump their moisture on the Eastern Sahel and the Atlas mountains.

Meanwhile, the Caribbean Current flows west. out between the lesser Antilles, turning north along the eastern coast of Africa, and the Iberian coast.

Warming the Britannic Isles before turning east, to turn southeast Greenland & Labrador, into lush Grasslands.
South whe have the Temperate Rain-forests of Appalachia.

North and west of the Britannic Isles, the Scandium icecaps cover the Barrett's Sea.
[While Northern Canada benefits from both the isthmus, & Caribbean Current, Eastern Siberia, and Northern Europe aren't so lucky.]

Southwest of Europe, The monsoon floods Arabia and northwestern Africa.
[OTL the monsoon is a easterly phenomenon flowing off the Dry African Continent,
Flipped ATL it flows across Indochina from the warm Pacific, and would carry a lot more moisture into South Arabia and the Sudan.]


In the Southern Hemisphere
The Palmer Peninsula, acts like a hook into the Polar Current Pooling the cool Dry water and sending it north along the West Coast where the Great Argentine Desert extents east all the way to the Rain Shadow cast by the Andes.
The East coast with its Mediterranean climate along the Coast and the High Temperate Rain Forests

Australia will get moist westerly wind carrying moisture far into the centre of the country before dropping the last of it on the east side of the Snowy mountains.

I don't see that much change in Southern Africa.

[fortyseven]

Awesome map Thande.