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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 π€·ββοΈ
I think that's not actually Pangea (the past supercontinent), but a rendition of Pangea Proxima (the future supercontinent). So just gotta wait a while...
It's definitely not pangea. For one, South America and Africa are not connected (which is the one thing everyone knows about plate tectonics). However what initially jumped out to me was India and the Himalayas (which are a relatively recent geological event).
We can do the structures now, and wait for them to match like legos by themselves
If every country would just build for the future Mother Nature will eventually finish the connections.
Suddenly I want a Pangea Factorio map.
The factory needs more land
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.
depends. is america building it? thered be 2 lines
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.
They'd actually build a pretty extensive and well-functioning one and then dismantle it all under pressure from car manufacturers.
Did you know: If all the railway lines in the US were joined end to end
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it would help
Imagine how much parking there could be. There would be practically no constraint on parking lot size.
. # Pave Pangea.
A sea of asphalt dotted with box stores and βluxury apartmentsβ that are more parking space than living area.
We could all have our own massive driveways for our giant trucks!
i think during Pangea, the center of the land 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 itβs 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
Not worth risking, being on same continent as americans.
Statistically it's much more likely to get invaded if you are on a different continent from them.
All of that would have been Mongolia long before European colonizers ever got a chance to genocide the new world natives.
An alternate history of the world if it was still pangea would be a wild book.
As a pro, there would be hardly any invasive species. But, imagine all the Australian venemous things in your backyard!
Conservatives: "See??? Why on EARTH should we invest in rail now when it's just going to be broken up by continental drift in 200 million years? It's woke liberal tax and spend waste!"
Need me a Pangea openttd map
OpenTTD in the wild.
Rail network?! That's commie talk. Real patriots would have an interconnected highway system.
just 1 more lane bro, we're gonna solve traffic dude just add 1 more lane
Think of all the mega parking lots this bad boy could fit!
Hell yeah! I love a good mega parking lot!
The factory must grow. Only took me 7,000 hours to start using trains.
it was a simpler time
Nah, we needed to wait for the landmasses to stop moving around first.
See what they took away from us!
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Plate tectonics?
Psst! Don't say their name too loud. That's bad for the algorithm
They would still be bitching and bickering about it.
Being landlocked would suck.
Factorio/TTD player spotted.
Or civ 3 player. Railroads made movent cost zero and we're op on the pangea map
The idea makes me think of The Centerfuge Brain Project where the doctor, talking about a gondola-typeβ¦ ride, says, βpeople would fall asleep, miss their stop, and have another 14 hour ride, and you can imagine the problems that caused.β
And somehow we would still have US americans tell us, that pangea is too big for a usable railway network.
Was there enough fossil fuel to run these trains back then?
Supposedly in 250 million years, there will be another supercontinent dubbed Pangea Ultima. Itβs 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.