What would life on Pangea have been like?

Adamantium

Something like Australia perhaps?

Everybody living on the coast to avoid the arid interior or maybe dangerous jungles?

A big global ocean that nobody would be arsed travelling?

If you forget: http://eatrio.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/10.-pangea_politik.jpg

gozunda

Adamantium wrote: »

Something like Australia perhaps?

Everybody living on the coast to avoid the arid interior or maybe dangerous jungles?

A big global ocean that nobody would be arsed travelling?

If you forget: http://eatrio.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/10.-pangea_politik.jpg

Constant warring factions of transient nation states whose borders would change and enlarge as time went on ( think continental US and the old USSR)
Not much change there then...

Land Armies would be vast and the fight for Coastal and Ocean rights would be a reoccurring theme and cause of conflict.

Alternatively an undivided landmass may have been a factor where humans would never have evolved to dominate the planet. The existing reptiles and later dinosaurs would have survived through sheer dominance of numbers and different evolution.

The Backwards Man

Trilobites and fern bushes probably.

gozunda

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Trilobites and fern bushes probably.

Pangea was fully assembled by the early Permian Period, approx. 270 million years ago. It broke apart approx 200 million years ago, during the Early Jurassic Period. Many insects, reptiles and Terrestrial plants were well established during the Pangean period of the Permian and early Jurasic.

While many species survived after the split up of the Pangea supercontinent including lines from which later mammals would evolve the poor old Trilobites did not survive the end of the Permian period and the breakup of Pangea - a pity as I always thought Trilobites were a very successful and interesting species.

faceman

I'd say it wasn't a good time to be selling boats.

Ken.

boards.pg FTW

flas

We would still be an island so not much really!was ireland not in two at one point aswell? Split from NE to SW? We would be closer to the equator so nice a toasty here as well!

WilyCoyote

Would have made things much easier for Michael O Leary.

Pinch Flat

Bit like the North side

Davidius

If Civ V has taught me anything it's that it just makes it easier to avoid runaway civs appearing on other continents that you need caravels to get to.

Duckworth_Luas

Would have been dangerous with all the dinosaurs and wasps the size of 747s.

Alf. A. Male

TV3 wouldn't have been able to fill hours of schedule with Nothing To Declare, pubs and parties wouldn't be full of thicks telling us that wearing a smelly GAA shirt for a year in one country amounted to travelling, Manic Street Preachers, Toto, Supertramp and Baz Luhrman, among others would have been at a loss for album, song and film titles.

crockholm

Well op,if you wait around Another couple of hundred million years,it will probably happen again.....so cut down on your red meat intake and give up the ciggies.

Must have been some serious weather back then,and the thought of being at the confluence of the Congo and Amazon rivers...drool

Mr. CooL ICE

Perhaps somebody could explain to me how a single landmass like Pangaea could actually exist? If my understanding of gravity is correct, wouldn't the tides eventually spread the oceans roughly around the centre of gravity of earth, meaning some of what is known as Pangaea would be covered in water, while other landmasses at the other side of earth would exist to balance everything?

Notorious97

Looks like the uk is bumming us in that pic...whats new haha

I havent read too much on pangea, i need to look more into it! Looks like we would still need a navy to protect our fish!

fly_agaric

LordChessington wrote: »

Perhaps somebody could explain to me how a single landmass like Pangaea could actually exist? If my understanding of gravity is correct, wouldn't the tides eventually spread the oceans roughly around the centre of gravity of earth, meaning some of what is known as Pangaea would be covered in water, while other landmasses at the other side of earth would exist to balance everything?

(As I understand it) the earth's crust (incl. the oceans) does not make up very much of the mass of the earth (the thickness is tens of ks but the earths radius is 6000 km). Its like the scum floating on a pool of water...moving bits of it around will not make much difference to the centre of gravity in the earth-moon system.

Capt'n Midnight

LordChessington wrote: »

Perhaps somebody could explain to me how a single landmass like Pangaea could actually exist? If my understanding of gravity is correct, wouldn't the tides eventually spread the oceans roughly around the centre of gravity of earth, meaning some of what is known as Pangaea would be covered in water, while other landmasses at the other side of earth would exist to balance everything?

Ah yes, the counterweight continent. Since there is so much land in the northern hemisphere , South Africa and Oz have a lot of dense stuff like gold and other minerals to balance it out.