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How the Earth will look in 250 million years (Picture)

antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov — About 250 million years from now, tectonic plates are again projected to reposition themselves so that a single landmass dominates: Pangea Ultima.

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  • doctorfungi, on 11/11/2007, -4/+548Africa will call America at 2am one night and claim that he was the best continent that she ever had.
  • chyya, on 10/10/2007, -19/+333voted... FAKE! no way scientists can build a time machine, go into the future, and then take a picture, and then send it to today. no way man..... no way.
  • lalop, on 10/10/2007, -16/+270I thought Africa and America were separating right now, how come they'll end together again?
  • doctorfungi, on 10/10/2007, -3/+156Think of the border disputes...
    Granted, we'll probably be long gone by then.
  • Lochie, on 10/10/2007, -2/+154Now show us what humans will look like in 250 million years!
  • stimpack, on 10/10/2007, -0/+132UK remains an Island, I think that means we may be safe from Dr. Zaius and his Ape armies.
  • AdionC, on 10/10/2007, -2/+116That's not what happened. The scientists in the future, who can build a time machine, have taken a picture and sent it to the past back to us.
  • chris9902, on 10/10/2007, -13/+108But isn't global warming going to consume all the land next Tuesday?
  • lcarsdeveloper, on 11/11/2007, -2/+86Do you need to say "+1" or should you just do it?
  • TheLoneHoot, on 10/10/2007, -3/+85http://tinyurl.com/yqkw87
  • hmunkey, on 10/10/2007, -3/+82There is a reason you aren't a geologist...
  • preshit, on 10/10/2007, -2/+77Aah, I pity all the airline companies :(
  • SonicBoom1000, on 10/10/2007, -2/+76I think the name is the coolest part, Pangea Ultima!
  • bonjourmr, on 04/25/2008, -1/+75"Walk to Asia!" - RIP Chris Farley
  • webcrumb, on 10/10/2007, -0/+72You mean they won't keep moving until they fall off the edge? WTF?
  • Azimuth1, on 10/10/2007, -26/+95That doesn't look right to me. The continents were all combined like that millions of years ago, and since then they've drifted so they're nicely spread out like they are now. Why are they going back together again?
  • Sabretou, on 10/10/2007, -1/+59Japan is going to disappear. Say goodbye to your sushi and anime, folks.
  • FingersMckenzie, on 10/10/2007, -4/+56Looks more like an image of the world 250 million years ago...
  • MonarchWastxD, on 10/10/2007, -3/+52Great Britain will rule again, mate. You've just described a giant british person ruling the world.

    Great Britain = England, Scotland, Wales.
    Briton = Habitant of Great Britain.
    UK = United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
  • Jahweh, on 10/10/2007, -8/+56The Earth is round, so they will continue drifting apart untill they all meet up on the other side of the planet.
  • Optimus, on 10/10/2007, -15/+62That's not funny, just ***** gross.
  • smek2, on 10/10/2007, -2/+48Yes, because YOU are right and the NASA is wrong. So many idiotic comments in here its sad. What do you know about platonic plate movement? The continents DO NOT drift say in a linear fashion. God, it's true, the soft gray matter we call a brain was not made for comprehending time spans like 250 million years.
  • subterfuge, on 10/10/2007, -0/+45"we fight the terrorists there so we dont have to fight them he- . . . *****."
  • untitlednet, on 10/10/2007, -1/+45Yeah, but the real question is: "Is it flat"?
  • inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+43to other galaxies to destroy.
  • thebellmaster1x, on 10/10/2007, -4/+46-1
  • Firehed, on 10/10/2007, -0/+41If I don't have my teleporter within 250M years, I'm going to be incredibly pissed.
  • Firehed, on 10/10/2007, -0/+41I really hope we manage to preserve the vending machines selling schoolgirl panties.

    ...err, did I just post that?
  • Pilot85, on 10/10/2007, -0/+41And, you know. Didn't do a bunch of hardcore drugs.
  • pbaehr, on 10/10/2007, -0/+40Except for Australia and Antarctica. ***** those guys.
  • TheChihuahua, on 10/10/2007, -0/+31Hasselhoff.
  • Pilot85, on 10/10/2007, -0/+31Damn you!! Damn you alll tooo helllll!
  • verbose, on 10/10/2007, -2/+31Silly astronomers! We'll turn this planet into a radioactive charred ball in space way before 250,000,000 AD, as predicted in both the Foundation and Dune novels!
  • tdowling, on 10/10/2007, -1/+30You're probably a troll, but I can't help myself:
    "extra terrestrial" --> "extraterrestrial"
    "grammer" --> "grammar"
    "American's" --> "Americans"
    And your second sentence is a bit awkward - please consider rewording
  • Zarokima, on 10/20/2007, -0/+29Yes, probably; there are some of us who plan on freezing ourselves for 250 million years to see how accurate this is.
  • Reziarfg, on 10/10/2007, -0/+28Now back up, what's this "Earth is round" stuff you're talking about?
  • peaceninja, on 10/10/2007, -0/+27they will be a "hairless, uniform mix of all races"....they took our jooooeeerbs!
  • sriel, on 10/10/2007, -0/+27"According to the Pangaea Ultima hypothesis, the Atlantic and Indian Oceans will continue to widen until new subduction zones bring the continents back together, forming a Future Pangea."
    from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangea_Ultima
  • linkcma, on 10/10/2007, -0/+27By that time the Japanese will launch into space and build colonies and Gundams for defense. There is nothing to worry about.
  • NSMike, on 10/10/2007, -3/+29Honestly, why do you care? You'll be dead, and you're just picking a fight.

    By the way, you misspelled grammar, and smek2 used "it's" properly.
  • MonarchWastxD, on 10/10/2007, -1/+26NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
  • Frnnkdlxx, on 11/11/2007, -4/+28Screw you. Africa needs a real lover, who can also double as a good father figure. America was just too abusive, so I'm sorry. We're leaving you for Asia....
  • marcgil, on 10/10/2007, -8/+32"..And that huge landmass on your right is called Ameriraq"
  • webcrumb, on 10/10/2007, -0/+24Unfortunately it'll probably also be under a couple of hundred metres of ice.
  • Tyorant, on 10/10/2007, -10/+34We will all be one.
    Awww
  • dbr_onix, on 10/10/2007, -1/+23Uhh, you were informed someone discovered the world was in fact round, weren't you..?
    If the continents keep on drifting around, they are eventually going to meet up on the other-side of the planet...
  • ElbridgeGerry, on 10/10/2007, -2/+24PANGEA WAS SHOT ON A SOUNDSTAGE
  • TexanPsycho, on 10/10/2007, -1/+23Probably?
  • Godlesswanderer, on 10/10/2007, -0/+22Europe and Asia are already Eurasia.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasia
  • Reziarfg, on 10/10/2007, -0/+22I'm sure NASA is making a more educated guess than you. I'm also going to assume that some amount of calculation took place to arrive at these results. perhaps a little more involved than what you heard of the general direction of continents in the 4th grade.
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