Pangea

Ganymede Glow

For those of you unfamiliar with Pangea it was basically a time when instead of sperated continents we had just one big land mass or supercontinent that looked a bit like this.

Anyway my question is, how different a world would it be if we still lived on one big continent? What would it mean to Ireland, would we even exist as a country?

Logical Fallacy

Ganymede Glow wrote: »

For those of you unfamiliar with Pangea it was basically a time when instead of sperated continents we had just one big land mass or supercontinent that looked a bit like this.

Anyway my question is, how different a world would it be if we still lived on one big continent? What would it mean to Ireland, would we even exist as a country?

The World Cup would be a **** load shorter.

Also, pants would never have been invented.

Schism

Does this mean that Dinosaurs would be still around? That'd be awesome. Imagine riding a T-Rex to work.

CrazyRabbit

We'd probably all be Chinese.

biko

Maybe like Australia, people living mostly along the coasts.

Ganymede Glow

Hell of a trek to the beach

TeddyTedson

It would be amazing. I'd become a Vagabond for sure! There would be no limits.

fakearms123

But where will we go for our holliers?? :mad: Me self and the wife won't be able to drink our mojitos by the pool in Majorca while our young ones harrass the local staff and cause general annoyance :mad: sure where will I show off me tattoos on me forearms now :mad: me kids won't be able to wear their full Man Utd kits at the airport and on the shuttle bus!

Shenshen

biko wrote: »

Maybe like Australia, people living mostly along the coasts.

This. The interior would be too dry and mostly desert, I should think.
Also, weather patterns would be more intense than they are now.

token56

Another supercontinent will form in about 250 million years or so

http://www.futuretimeline.net/beyond.htm#250000000

TheZohanS

Ganymede Glow wrote: »

For those of you unfamiliar with Pangea it was basically a time when instead of sperated continents we had just one big land mass or supercontinent that looked a bit like this.

Anyway my question is, how different a world would it be if we still lived on one big continent? What would it mean to Ireland, would we even exist as a country?

Pangea wasn't the first supercontinent either and chances are that we weren't the first civilisation on the planet, catastrophic events wiped out many civilisations before us.

Ganymede Glow

TheZohan wrote: »

Pangea wasn't the first supercontinent either and chances are that we weren't the first civilisation on the planet, catastrophic events wiped out many civilisations before us.

I see you read the question

Dravokivich

TheZohan wrote: »

Pangea wasn't the first supercontinent either and chances are that we weren't the first civilisation on the planet, catastrophic events wiped out many civilisations before us.

ATLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANTIS!

TheZohanS

Doctor Jimbob wrote: »

Ganymede Glow

TheZohan wrote: »

tallaghtmick

TheZohan wrote: »

Pangea wasn't the first supercontinent either and chances are that we weren't the first civilisation on the planet, catastrophic events wiped out many civilisations before us.

lolz what are you talking about god made us 3000 years ago:pac:........proof in the link
http://files.sharenator.com/cool_face_986_jpg_I_CHALLENGE_YOU-s5000x4068-141730-410.png

sbsquarepants

TheZohan wrote: »

Pangea wasn't the first supercontinent either and chances are that we weren't the first civilisation on the planet, catastrophic events wiped out many civilisations before us.

What do you mean?
What do you base this on?

Spunge

TheZohan wrote: »

chances are that we weren't the first civilisation on the planet,

wat

Guill

Ganymede Glow wrote: »

For those of you unfamiliar with Pangea it was basically a time when instead of sperated continents we had just one big land mass or supercontinent that looked a bit like this.

Anyway my question is, how different a world would it be if we still lived on one big continent? What would it mean to Ireland, would we even exist as a country?

The Lord God would have directed all species to evolve exactly as they are now and man kind would still consist of different clolours of people for it is Gods will.

The place would be still ran by **** head polititions though....

sensibleken

Well we werent. There was the carthaginians, persians, egyptians, neolithic irish, assyrians, babylonians etc. And plenty of theorising that massive climate change brought an end to some of them around the end of the neolithic

Notorious97

TheZohan wrote: »

Pangea wasn't the first supercontinent either and chances are that we weren't the first civilisation on the planet, catastrophic events wiped out many civilisations before us.

Can Jim Corr verify this?

sensibleken

Notorious97 wrote: »

Can Jim Corr verify this?

He doent need to. Plenty of civilisations have come and gone over the span of human existance, wiped out by climate, famine, disease war etc

Krusader

TheZohan wrote: »

Pangea wasn't the first supercontinent either and chances are that we weren't the first civilisation on the planet, catastrophic events wiped out many civilisations before us.

There is that possibility, unfortunately i think we'll never know and in 1000 million years time a new civilisation will probably have this conversation, when our race is long forgotten and our archetectural achievements have been turned to dust and our bones into fossil fuels leaving no trace of our exsistence

ScumLord

sensibleken wrote: »

Well we werent. There was the carthaginians, persians, egyptians, neolithic irish, assyrians, babylonians etc. And plenty of theorising that massive climate change brought an end to some of them around the end of the neolithic

The Zohan kind of implied we weren't the first species to become civilised and that there was another that was wiped out by Pangea breaking up.

It's possible, there would be little to no evidence left of them by now.

sensibleken

ScumLord wrote: »

The Zohan kind of implied we weren't the first species to become civilised and that there was another that was wiped out by Pangea breaking up.

It's possible, there would be little to no evidence left of them by now.

hmm.

Zohan did you mean previous human civilistions or are you a mentaler?

karma_

Notorious97 wrote: »

Can Jim Corr verify this?

Given time and an infinite supply of monkeys with typewriters, Jim corr can verify anything.

phill106

Crosáidí wrote: »

There is that possibility, unfortunately i think we'll never know and in 1000 million years time a new civilisation will probably have this conversation, when our race is long forgotten and our archetectural achievements have been turned to dust and our bones into fossil fuels leaving no trace of our exsistence

They will certainly wonder wtf all those plastic bags came from...

Copper23

Crosáidí wrote: »

There is that possibility, unfortunately i think we'll never know and in 1000 million years time a new civilisation will probably have this conversation, when our race is long forgotten and our archetectural achievements have been turned to dust and our bones into fossil fuels leaving no trace of our exsistence

Well that's a very defeatist attitude isn't it Dougal!?!?!

Iwasfrozen

Were you playing Civilisations iv as well op?

Sea Sharp

There'd be a motorway from Tokyo to Tallagh!

sensibleken

The republicans would still be giving out about partition

TheZohanS

sensibleken wrote: »

hmm.

Zohan did you mean previous human civilistions or are you a mentaler?

Ha ha! Human of course.

I'm starting to watch Carl Sagan's "The Cosmos", fascinating stuff.

Krusader

Copper23 wrote: »

Well that's a very defeatist attitude isn't it Dougal!?!?!

more of a realist attitude

karma_

TheZohan wrote: »

Ha ha! Human of course.

I'm starting to watch Carl Sagan's "The Cosmos", fascinating stuff.

That is a brilliant show.

ejmaztec

Christopher Columbus would have been well pissed off. People would have laughed their fuckin heads off when he got back and invented the face-palm.

Krusader

ejmaztec wrote: »

Christopher Columbus would have been well pissed off. People would have laughed their fuckin heads off when he got back and invented the face-palm.

Why? he was looking for America, he was trying to get to the East Indies by sailing west

Big Nasty

Sea Sharp wrote: »

There'd be a motorway from Tokyo to Tallagh!

Don't you think they're in enough trouble?

fontanalis

TheZohan wrote: »

Ha ha! Human of course.

I'm starting to watch Carl Sagan's "The Cosmos", fascinating stuff.

Teh David Attenborough of astronomy, and to think that everyday in newspapers there is ink devoted to astrology but not astronomy. No wonder the world is the way it is.

Gunmonkey

Airplanes would probably not exist or be very exclusive technology, since so much rail lines would ahve been laid down for trade and such.

Centre of the landmass would be barren land due to constant weather pattern of no rain, so either desert or tundra in the polar regions.

Civilisation would probably consist of a dozen massive super states and a few tiny breakaway regions between borders as little topography to align nations borders too.

Also, we would wear hats on our feet and hamburger would eat people.

Pangea

I always knew I would be famous one day :pac:

Orando Broom

Schism wrote: »

Does this mean that Dinosaurs would be still around? That'd be awesome. Imagine riding a T-Rex to work.

It would probably be in the C tax band and the true symbol of the Celtic Smilodon.

biko

Pangea wrote: »

I always knew I would be famous one day :pac:

Searched your own name eh? Mr Vain

Orando Broom

fontanalis wrote: »

Teh David Attenborough of astronomy, and to think that everyday in newspapers there is ink devoted to astrology but not astronomy. No wonder the world is the way it is.

Astronomers can't tell the future, ya big silly!

TaosHum

I thought this thread was going to be about the tea

Agricola

Ahem...

Source - Creationwiki.org :pac:

Kevin Duffy

Gunmonkey wrote: »

Airplanes would probably not exist or be very exclusive technology, since so much rail lines would ahve been laid down for trade and such. .

US is a lot smaller than Pangea and air travel is frequent. Sure you'd nearly fly to the shops for a pint of milk.

Gunmonkey wrote: »

Centre of the landmass would be barren land due to constant weather pattern of no rain, so either desert or tundra in the polar regions. .

Canada, Asia, a lot smaller, wildly varying weather patterns from place to place. The effects of lattitude, seasonal variations etc. would all still be felt.

Gunmonkey wrote: »

Civilisation would probably consist of a dozen massive super states and a few tiny breakaway regions between borders as little topography to align nations borders too. .

Europe is pretty small in global terms and would be a fly on the shíte of Pangea, but still manages to cram in a geansaí load of nation states.

Gunmonkey wrote: »

Also, we would wear hats on our feet and hamburger would eat people.

At last, you're talking sense.

Conor108

TheZohan wrote: »

Pangea wasn't the first supercontinent either and chances are that we weren't the first civilisation on the planet, catastrophic events wiped out many civilisations before us.

Someones been playing Assasin's Creed 2...

Mike 1972

Ganymede Glow wrote: »

Anyway my question is, how different a world would it be if we still lived on one big continent?

Wolfe Tone and Keith might be best mates :pac:

orourkeda

sounds remarkably like fanjeeta

Capt'n Midnight

Schism wrote: »

Does this mean that Dinosaurs would be still around? That'd be awesome.

They are still around.

We call them birds nowadays.

Conor108

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

They are still around.

We call them birds nowadays.

How the mighty have fallen...