Hammond : Journey to the center of the Earth
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sorry.He said towards the end (I think - was kinda half watching it) that the continents would end up being pushed together to form one great big continent.
I was under the impression that the opposite was what was happening - the continents are being pushed further apart.
Bit of a big mistake IF I'm not mistaken
I was under the impression that the opposite was what was happening - the continents are being pushed further apart.
Bit of a big mistake IF I'm not mistaken
Jasey@ said:
He said towards the end (I think - was kinda half watching it) that the continents would end up being pushed together to form one great big continent.
I was under the impression that the opposite was what was happening - the continents are being pushed further apart.
Bit of a big mistake IF I'm not mistaken
Given we live on a globe, all the continents can't all get further apart. The Atlantic Ocean is expanding and the Pacific Ocean is contracting, so Africa/Europe and the Americas would end up on opposite sides of one big landmass with Asia in the middle.I was under the impression that the opposite was what was happening - the continents are being pushed further apart.
Bit of a big mistake IF I'm not mistaken
Overall I thought the program quite good. Not up to Prof Cox standards but maybe more watchable for that.
The bit with the stadium built as two separate halves. That's fine if they drift apart but if they push together - crunch, surely? Or did I miss something?
I wasn't paying too much attention to be honest, too many gimmicky effects for it to be considered 'serious' and to many 'Hammond-isms'. I thought the nutter in the volcano was CGI at first, no sane human being would get that close, would they?
I wasn't paying too much attention to be honest, too many gimmicky effects for it to be considered 'serious' and to many 'Hammond-isms'. I thought the nutter in the volcano was CGI at first, no sane human being would get that close, would they?
Jasey@ said:
ewenm said:
Given we live on a globe, all the continents can't all get further apart.
There are theories that all the continents started off as one great land mass.Just because we live on a globe doesn't mean it isn't getting bigger !
The continents aren't going to get to a point at which they are as widely spaced as possible and then just stop. Just because they started as one landmass doesn't mean they won't be one landmass again.
There must be online animations of predicted continental drift and the future layout of continents.
What's geting bigger?
There are limits to how far back in time we can say with any certainty where the continents have been at various time in earth history. The earth is 4.5 billion years old. The farthest we can go back with any reasonable certainty regarding where the continents were is about 600 million years. Older evidence has been destroyed by the movement of the plates.
It certainly does seem that between 600 to about 400 million years ago, all the continents were rammed together to form one large continent (Pangea). This began to break up at the end of this period and since then the plates have been drifting about pulling apart or bashing into each other.
What they were doing before 600 million years ago is a bit of a guess but the assumption is that they were sliding about like they are today.
There are limits to how far back in time we can say with any certainty where the continents have been at various time in earth history. The earth is 4.5 billion years old. The farthest we can go back with any reasonable certainty regarding where the continents were is about 600 million years. Older evidence has been destroyed by the movement of the plates.
It certainly does seem that between 600 to about 400 million years ago, all the continents were rammed together to form one large continent (Pangea). This began to break up at the end of this period and since then the plates have been drifting about pulling apart or bashing into each other.
What they were doing before 600 million years ago is a bit of a guess but the assumption is that they were sliding about like they are today.
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