The split of Gondwana has nothing to do with the asteroid that whiped out dinosaurs. It startet to split way before the impact. The asteroid hit the earth ~66 million years ago, but Gondwana already startet to split ~150 million years ago.
The continent split because of the drift of the tectonic plates
Unrelated, but when I was a kid I thought China and Japan were a united land mass until WW2 when we nuked Japan, then it floated off into the ocean. This reminded me of that a little bit
Yeah, I know it started to drift because of the shift of the tectonic plates, but didn't know that the drift started happening before the asteroid impact. I thought the impact triggered the shift.
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Metaright@kbin.social · 5 pts · 3y
I don't understand.
0x4E4F@lemmy.fmhy.ml · -2 pts · 3y
They used to be together, before the asteroid hit that wiped out the dinosaurs. Then, the continents split.
SchoopDaWhoop@feddit.de · 11 pts · 3y
The split of Gondwana has nothing to do with the asteroid that whiped out dinosaurs. It startet to split way before the impact. The asteroid hit the earth ~66 million years ago, but Gondwana already startet to split ~150 million years ago.
The continent split because of the drift of the tectonic plates
LeylaaLovee@lemmy.fmhy.ml · 4 pts · 3y
Unrelated, but when I was a kid I thought China and Japan were a united land mass until WW2 when we nuked Japan, then it floated off into the ocean. This reminded me of that a little bit
0x4E4F@lemmy.fmhy.ml · 3 pts · 3y
Yeah, I know it started to drift because of the shift of the tectonic plates, but didn't know that the drift started happening before the asteroid impact. I thought the impact triggered the shift.
Thanks for the info 👍 ☺️.
Mothra@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 3y
Just like the previous Lemming, this still doesn't explain what the joke is to me. What's that got to do with communism?
0x4E4F@lemmy.fmhy.ml · 1 pts · 3y
I suppose it's the "we ised to be together, it used to be our continent, now we're separated".
HowRu68@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
Yeah and it might have something to uniting continents with Communism ( or Sino- Russian imperialism) as in the end you see the Hammer and the Sickle.
0x4E4F@lemmy.fmhy.ml · 2 pts · 3y
Nice uname, love the movie, best movies Diesel starred in 👍.
SwiggitySwole@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 3y
Pangea is going to blow your mind