Future World

The tectonic plates of the world are drifting around. A couple of hundred millions years ago all the land formed one big land mass called Pangea.

In another 250 million years, if the tectonic plates continue along their present course, there is likely to be another large landmass: "Pangea Ultima".

There is an excellent website and animation here.

If present trends continue, Australia will move North and hit South East Asia, and the Americas will move towards and eventually hit the African plate.

I think its interesting we can predict that a place A will collide with a place B in 250 million years.

So for example what is now New York will likely hit a point on the Western coast of Africa.

I think it would be interesting if I set up a website where people from all such points A and B could make contact. They could make friends, exchange information, and store it digitally.

Perhaps they could also decide to make time capsules that would be opened 250 million years in the future. Or not.

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NASA has an excellent article here

I have to say, as well, I'm not sure I really understand why the Americas would start moving towards Africa. Currently, of course, they are drifting apart and forming the Mid-Atlantic ridge. Even Chris Scotese, a supposed expert on the subject, concedes that predictions beyond 50 million years into the future have a high margin of error.