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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: xkcd.com/3132/
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?
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.
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.
EvilEdgelord@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
You don’t remember the theory of Pangea and plate techtonics from school?
EvilEdgelord@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
too_high_for_this@lemmy.world 1 month ago
this bitch don’t know bout Pangaea
morphballganon@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You’re right, you shouldn’t.
WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com 1 month ago
But if you don’t read the explanation you don’t get to see the funny “citations needed” like
shalafi@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I didn’t get it either at first. If he had cut the word off at a different point?
TheTetrapod@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I don’t know how you could make it clearer than just leaving off the last letter.
SwimmingInTheeStars@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Because it wasn’t funny. I like Xmas but they can’t all be winners.