Pangaea reborn

[Michael]

what if the asb's decide to recreate pangaea or the super continent? what would happen and how would everone react?

[Leej]

-err Dave why is the ground shaking?
-I dunno
-err Dave why are the buildings collapsing?
-I dunno
-err Dave why is the ground opening up beneath our feet?...

[David Howery]

ecological disaster would be the first affect. Areas that were seacoasts are suddenly isolated in the middle of the new supercontinent. Animals that were unique to one continent suddenly are unleashed to go anywhere they please. Lions wander into the great plains, and grizzlies visit Africa. Australia's maruspials vanish as they are inundated with placental mammals. Diseases once restricted to a single continent are now able to move anywhere... distemper, hoof and mouth disease, rabies, and mad cow disease wipe out billions of animals all over the world. Are we assuming that the ASBs redirect all the rivers to go to the ocean, or does the Nile suddenly empty out onto Europe?
And then there's the humans... mass hysteria, shrieking dementia, naked looters, prophets of hellfire and doom, all of that....

[radical_neutural]

here you go... http://http://www.scotese.com/future2.htm

[Mike Stearns]

Don't forget the political aspect. How would stop countried like India and China from expanding and taking the whole continent and don't think that they wouldn't try either.

[DuQuense]

And with no atlantic ocean, the poor from Africa could just walk into the US, If Whe have a Problem with the Short Mexican Border, what the entire east coast as a border with Africa..........

OTOH I think whe just solved our Cuba Problem.

[Straha]

If this happens in a GOP controlled white house era expect the US to bioengineer viruses targeting nonwhites and release them

[Straha]

That sounds just like a thing dubya would do since he's a texan...

[Max Sinister]

Don't forget the political aspect. How would stop countried like India and China from expanding and taking the whole continent and don't think that they wouldn't try either.

Well, they don't IOTL, do they? Of course, the US would be hit by the change very hard, but so would both of 'em...

Other consequences:

- Trains would become more important, since you can use them to go in short time from, let's say, London to New York now.
- Ships OTOH would become much less useful. Especially since you can transport oil from the Gulf to America with pipelines now.
- Would Japan still be an archipelago, or would they share a border with China now? (I know many people who wouldn't like that idea!)

[Michael]

here you go... http://http://www.scotese.com/future2.htm

Thanks dude, but any interest I had in the subject disappeared 22 months ago.

[The Ubbergeek]

here you go... http://http://www.scotese.com/future2.htm

How come that link send me to the french newspaper Le Monde? :eek:

[NomadicSky]

That sounds just like a thing dubya would do since he's a texan...
He would not George Bush isn't racist he made be a bad president but he isn't a genocidal maniac

[The Ubbergeek]

He would not George Bush isn't racist he made be a bad president but he isn't a genocidal maniac

Dubbya Bouche is racist, I'd say. But it's more a low-grade, common man's racism.

[DuQuense]

Originally Posted by radical_neutural
here you go... http://http://www.scotese.com/future2.htm

How come that link send me to the french newspaper Le Monde?
to many Http's-- try this

http://www.scotese.com/future2.htm

[Archangel Michael]

How come that link send me to the french newspaper Le Monde? :eek:

It takes me to the microsoft homepage.