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Map of Pangea with modern-day borders

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Tangential: I've blocked pretty well all dedicated ad providers. It's very easy and enough people are doing it now that you can see the result - small ads are starting to be hosted on the same domain as the site itself. Small and static. I can tolerate that. I'm ok with it.

This site there's an ad for a book on leadership, a flickering animated "look at me!" advert. Not OK at all. Now I will take the time to look into how to block these site-hosted ads, animated or not. You advertising gits are simply unable to learn, you're too greedy.

Upvoted for sentiment, but I don't see any ads on the site. I'm using a combination of uBlock origin and Ghostery.

I don't see any ads as well. Make sure to enable more comprehensive lists on uBlock Origin.

On mobile, no ads either - using only adaway as a hosts level blocker

I don't see this ad. But honestly you come across as rather entitled if you think the web should conform exactly to your preferehnces. The web and millions of people working on it are paid through ads. Many of the sites you use would not exist without ads.

Ads that are on the site and relevant to the content should not really offend anyone. Intense tracking is something else and should be downright illegal. But ads are part of what pays many things today - and in reality can also be a useful venue for promoting relevant and good products that otherwise no one would know.

I prefer ads any day over "content marketing", paid articles, paywalls or simply no content being available.

The internet existed before ads, too. This website we're on now has no ads.

Advertising is not the inevitable endgame of any particular forum. It's only there because we accept it. If I go to my public library and ask if I can put up a flier, they say "Are you a local non-profit? Then you can post it on the bulletin board in the back corner." Just because they can run ads doesn't mean they must.

It'd be great if the people who want an ad-laden web could have their side, and the people who want a free volunteer web could have their side. There was a time when I might have thought that .com/.org could do this, but clearly that distinction is long gone.

@anewvillager, @pmiller2 thanks both, I'll look into those. I'm curious how unless they have a very large list (or bloom filter perhaps) of individual URLs. Anyway I'll find out.

@notechback, your point is quite valid but please note I have no problem with "reasonable" ads, I stated as such, only ones that are IMO excessive. And that most definitely includes animated. How the web is funded is a very good question but money-driven fuck-you rent seeking intermediaries who don't know when to stop is not, IMO, the answer. BTW the ad was not associated with the content.

I'm interested in how this was generated. There are some parts that are purely artistic (or overlooked), such as the presence of modern-day river systems, Lake Victoria, the Great Lakes, etc.

I built a lower-fidelity but more interactive visualization here: https://dinosaurpictures.org/ancient-earth#240. The viz uses the modeling outputs of the Paleomap Project mentioned in the article. Reversing the model allows users to enter their city/town and see how it moved around over geologic time.

Man, Europe is tiny, took me a good 20 seconds to find it. I know the about the Mercatorial projection thing but this highlights it even more.

Yeah Mercator tends to hide the fact that Brazil's land mass is 4x Greenland.

But... it's almost exactly where it is on a modern map! It's just above Africa.

Yeah, and this projection really highlights how huge Africa is.

Fascinating to see India split in two here. So I guess the collision of the large Indian mass with the eurasian mass is what created the Himalayas.

Exactly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geology_of_the_Himalaya

There's even an xkcd on that https://xkcd.com/1449/

Is this map accurate in terms of the equator and poles? And would that have corresponding effects on the weather? It looks like most of China and Japan, plus Australia, would be freezing while the equator is running almost directly through the center of the US.

[2012] http://capitan-mas-ideas.blogspot.com/2012/08/pangea-politic... with commentary on the shortcomings

What's the reason that the Earth had that form? And why not any more?

Did it speed faster around the Sun when it was a liquid lava blob so it got a pointy end that later had too much elevation to be covered in water?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercontinent_cycle

I think saying "modern day map, transformed to look like Pangea" might be more accurate, as clearly Pangea did not have gaps between the (modern-day) continents.

"clearly"?

Yes, as in – this is clearly the land features of our present day continents mashed together, not a best guess at what the actual land of Pangea looked like, with borders subsequently projected onto that.

Interesting twist for Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece & all that SSE part of europe

Spains position relative to Morocco hasn’t moved too much.

I find this oddly touching.

Wow, Tibet.

It surely shows size does not matter.

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