Where were you 300 million years ago? A tool to find out.
 

This is a cool web site: http://dinosaurpictures.org/ancient-earth#66

You can input your address (tip: doesn't have to be your exact address), and it'll plot your point on a world map. You can then change the date of your map to see who plate tectonics would have worked around your location for the past 750 million years.

Living in Denver, I've been on a coastline numerous times. I think my property has been near the beach at least six different times.

300,000 years ago, Pangaea just started breaking up.

I am going to add this to my school list.

No wonder the Himalayas are so huge. The Indian subcontinent used to be an island.

I've never met a flat earther or even seen one speak on the internets but apparently they are everywhere.

You might want to add some zeros to that.

But only in the northern hemisphere. Because in the southern hemisphere they all fell off.

Oh I see.

The CHIEFS won the Super Bowl back on January 11, 1970. Cool man, thanks for the link!

Yeah, that is one of the cooler bits of tectonic lore... when they automate it and you can see the Indian sub-continent smash into Asia above and push up the Himalayas.

Fairly recently too. I want to say the Himalayas continue to be pushed up at some small rate each year.

yup, forgot a few. Corrected to 350,000,000

I also like telling the kids that MPLS was underwater many times. But it had nothing to do with lakes. Freaks them out. Fish many feet long. Large teeth. Then show them the proof. That is learning.

Oh lord, did Carcosa find this thread yet? I see that JJ did.

LMAO

I've read that the Himalayas are still growing an inch a year or more, which seems like a lot when you think about it.

Still shows me in ***ing Illinois - only underwater.:cuss:

India was part of Africa. Floated away. Then Madagascar.
Now it is ripping apart again. Great Rift Valley.

Had a parent that tried to deny that Plate Tectonics existed. Oh Lord... that was a conversation.

LMAO JJ was removed from the thread.


Unfortunately I can't look at your thing Mr Rain Man. Apparently my graphics card does not seem to support WebGL. I'll check it from home later.

Yep.. that is why I am waiting to climb it.. why climb it now when it will be bigger and even more impressive in 30 years?

It's actually not him (anymore)... he has (for the most part) stopped responding.

The problem is everyone who keeps dragging the same ****ing joke into the ground over and over and over.

Apparently my posts were removed. Funny, I thought that this thread would be okay for my posts. It's on topic.Sort of. Oh well. I will leave it alone.

A mere 300 million years ago I would be beachfront on an island roughly the size of Australia in what looks like a very ideal and fertile climate.

On the plus side, I bet the mosquitoes would have been terrible.

and they'd be the size of chickens

I love this!

I've almost always been on a coastline. Spent a little time at what appears to be the South Pole, had neighbors in southern Morocco (until the damn Atlantic Creek busted right through, progress I guess) and to answer your question specifically, sat atop the biggest mountain range I ever saw 300 million years ago.

I wonder if everyone would have been all worked up over climate change back then.

300 million years ago I still wasn't getting laid

ERMAGERD!!!!!

If you ****ers don't pay a bunch of money to this group that is going to tell us fancy stories about saving the earth and investing in their profitable ideas, we're going to have polar caps!!!! And then, they're going to go away. And then come back again. WTF!!!!!

Don't even get me started on the fracturing of continents.

Well, the dinosaurs had pretty good reason to get worked up about it.

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Yes, but could they have done anything about it? It was probably all a plot set up by the mammals to cleanse the world of the reptilian/avian menace.

They apparently held conferences about it.

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I bet our orbit was a little different 300 million rotations around the sun ago. So we were in a different place for sure.

We were on the other side of the Milky Way 300 million years ago (well partly).

Also the Milky Way was in a different part of the universe.

And spacetime, the entire universe, was somewhat smaller.

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Far side!!!!!!!!!!!

I always read the earth is spinning slower on its axis now than it was before. And the Moon is moving away at 1 inch per year. That changes things.

That explains why workdays seem so long these days.

Yeah also the continents are drifting all over. So you're on a different part of the actual globe of the earth.

IIRC, it's a prettt significant amount.

When does it stop?

I am confused I thought the earth was only 10,000 years old :)

****ing lame my post was deleted ROFL

Did it go to the Romper Room version of this thread?

Oh dear lord

Until the masses are equally moving forces. Maybe never

I mean, is it a joke if the other person is that disconnected from reality? I feel like it's an ongoing attempt at education.

Dang it, I missed the fun!!!

It's about 2.4" per year.

It stops when the Indian plate runs out of gas maybe in 100 million years.

The Appalachians used to be higher than the Himalayas. Now they're worn-down nubs of their former selves. They're one of the oldest mountain rangers on earth. The oldest rocks found in them are some 480 million years old.

This bitch don't know bout Pangea-

Lil Dickey

huh?

Lol. Same thing popped into my head reading this thread. Watch out for the wolves.

kcmo is under water as well

Looks like Phoenix is still barren land 66 million years ago but much closer to the ocean. Nice!