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This looks nutty, but actually makes sense.
Neal Adams (famed comic book artist) has long said the Pangaea theory--this notion that all of the continents were once joined together in a "supercontinent" hanging out on one side of the planet--makes no sense. The planet would be too imbalanced if all the landmass was on one side, and the water from the other side would rush towards the land, balancing it out.
Adams' theory is that the Earth is growing, and that all of the continents were in fact connected--but in their present positions, because the planet was smaller! Check out the CG animation of what he's talking about:
If this is true, it's good news for you if you don't like your neighbors; just wait a few millenia and their house will be farther away.
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Where does the water come from then? Was the atmosphere just ridiculously humid all the time and the ground just caked in mountains of salt?
There is no shortage of great comic book creators and their crazy, paranoid world-views. The "growing planet" hypothesis is, I'm afraid, a widely debunked one.
Cool, then we won't have to worry about over-population anymore! Of course we'll have to evolve gigantic legs to overcome the increased gravity of a gigantic earth...
I can't watch the video so maybe this is addressed, but I don't think so. Has the thought occured that maybe the terrain on the ocean's floor isn't totally the same everywhere (topographically). That would easily explain this 'balance' thing. I think I'll keep my science learning to actual scientists, not comic book artists.
Shitferbrains, just like "Intelligent Design".
Tell the Ring of Fire volcanoes that there's no subduction. Tell paleomagnetic geologists that the continents haven't moved toward and away from each other as the tectonic plates carried continents into supercontinents and then broke them up again. Totally shitferbrains. Cute cartoon but he may as well show the earth on the back of a giant tortoise.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expanding_earth_theory
This is really dumb. Some comic book author looks at a map and thinks - 'gee, that looks like it was connected, i bet it was' - then tries to come up with 'evidence'. The fact is that there would have to be some VERY powerful force causing the earth to expand contrary to the forces of gravity pulling it tighter.
Don't believe this. It's silly.
I get all my geological research from comic book superhero artists.
Nope, it's nutty - it discards the fact that new crust is constantly emerging from the sea floor. Continental drift isn't a theory, it's a proven scientific fact. Where would the extra mass come from?
Is this a joke? During the animation the landmasses clearly deform when the "demonstration" takes place.
Where did the mass and oceans go when earth was in its "collapsed" form, that's my main question.
Also, I don't see the point of the science community "hiding" from revealing this theory to be true.