also OOP is https://fops.cloud/users/N33R
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 🤷♀️
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So much easier to war!
Supposedly in 250 million years, there will be another supercontinent dubbed Pangea Ultima. It’s 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.
Being landlocked would suck.
depends. is america building it? thered be 2 lines
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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.
2 lines of different sizes
Did you know: If all the railway lines in the US were joined end to end
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it would help
And somehow we would still have US americans tell us, that pangea is too big for a usable railway network.
I want to see it.
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
i think during Pangea, the center of the mass 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.
Sounds like hell for Sir Mix-a-lot.
Oh I just saw the answer to this in the new Dinosaurs doc on Netflix, assuming it’s 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
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
See what they took away from us!
they
Plate tectonics?
Psst! Don’t say their name too loud. That’s bad for the algorithm
Companies would still make flying around the waterworld the default. Claiming “sound issues” for the people below…
Rail network?! That’s commie talk. Real patriots would have an interconnected highway system.
The factory must grow. Only took me 7,000 hours to start using trains.
Think of all the mega parking lots this bad boy could fit!
Hell yeah! I love a good mega parking lot!
just 1 more lane bro, we’re gonna solve traffic dude just add 1 more lane
They would still be bitching and bickering about it.
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.
The idea makes me think of The Centerfuge Brain Project where the doctor, talking about a gondola-type… ride, says, “people would fall asleep, miss their stop, and have another 14 hour ride, and you can imagine the problems that caused.”
Need me a Pangea openttd map
OpenTTD in the wild.
