xkcd #3132: Coastline Similarity
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Hey! A bunch of the early Cretaceous fossils on each coast seem to have been plagiarized, too!
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3132/
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When there was only one land mass, is there any scientific theories if that would change the rotation of the earth on its axis or around the sun?
No, but the climate was probably cooler and drier than today. In fact the interior regions of the supercontinent might have been too dry to support most life-forms.
It would not. The mass of the Earth doesn’t change, and angular momentum is conserved.
I was curious since mass would seem lopsided. I guess not enough. Thanks for answering.
The crust of the earth is relatively thinner than the skin of an apple from my understanding. So I wouldn’t expect anything happening on the crust to have a huge impact on that kind of behavior. Granted, even small changes could be noticable.
That’s a great point. When it comes to the Earth’s mass, the surface is barely a factor.
My layman’s understanding is that the water mostly makes up for it, and that more wobble comes from the moon than any inconsistency in land-mass distribution
I shouldn’t have to click a second link just to understand the comic on the first link, fucking hell
EDIT: I shouldn’t have to read extra flavor text, either. Just tell the goddamn joke.
EDIT 2: Fuck you dogpiling pieces of shit. You don’t know a damn thing about comedy, and are just looking for someone to take your shitty life out on.
That’s fucking stupid. Just tell the goddamn joke.
You don’t remember the theory of Pangea and plate techtonics from school?
OH, he’s trying to say PLAGIARISM! I thought it was some other word 🤦♂️
Darth Plagueis perhaps?
Literally what went through my head 😂
Ahhhhh gotcha, no worries :)
this bitch don’t know bout Pangaea
You’re right, you shouldn’t.
I didn’t get it either at first. If he had cut the word off at a different point?
I don’t know how you could make it clearer than just leaving off the last letter.
They literally want it spelled out for them
Because it wasn’t funny. I like XKCD but they can’t all be winners.
