The world as a supercontinent

[Soomie]

In a few million years, North America and Asia are supposed to come together once again to begin the formation of yet another supercontinent that will be known as Amasia. I've been wondering what the world will be like when the continents are once again connected as they used to be. I can't imagine how difficult it will be for all of the countries of the world to keep peace being so close together. I think it would be a great opportunity for a universal language and solidarity to develop. Perhaps that will be when communism can exist globally.

What do you think about the world as a supercontinent, comrades?

[TheGodlessUtopian]

I don't think the plates shifting to a continuous landmass will help socialist revolutions develop. It might make economic assistance a bit easier since some nations wouldn't have to ship over sea but other than that I wouldn't see the benefits. Besides, two million years? I hope we would have achieved communism by than (it being a miracle in itself humanity lives that long!).

[Blake's Baby]

Given that human-like behaviour has onlt been around 2.6 million years as far as we can tell (earliest stone tools in Africa) and we have in the intervening time doubled in height, invented art, language, cities, engines, spaceships and the Marxist method, I think the next 2.6 million years will produce such massive changes in human society that any attempt to guess would be like (to steal a metaphor) extrapolating the entire history of the East India Company from a tealeaf. Before the tealeaf has even grown on the bush.

If you can get a chimpanzee to not only lecture on quantum mechanics, but also explain the appeal of Hannah Montana, then I'd agree it might be possible for us to imagine what it might be like. But I don't think it is.

Even so, does it really matter what arrangement the continents are in? Asia, Africa and Europe are already next to each other, all of them are absolutely littered with countries that range in size from the tiny (San Marino, Monaco, Singapore, Andorra) to the truly vast (Russia, Indonesia) and ... we don't much get on. But then again, most people don't tend to travel all that often. Why would the fact that the Americas are a bit closer make much difference?

[Soomie]

I agree that I hope that we have enacted a better system by then. I just looked it up. The continent is predicted to form between 50 and 200 million years. The sun is not expected to engulf the earth until around 4 billion years. Not sure what life on the planet will be like at the supercontinent time.

[ind_com]

We'll evolve into space creatures and leave earth way before that. And we'll pollute the environment completely and become extinct if the world revolution does not happen within the next couple of centuries.

[doesn't even make sense]

If we have to wait a few million years to develop a stable social order we'll be extinct.

We'll probably be extinct either way.

[Q]

In a few million years, North America and Asia are supposed to come together once again to begin the formation of yet another supercontinent that will be known as Amasia. I've been wondering what the world will be like when the continents are once again connected as they used to be. I can't imagine how difficult it will be for all of the countries of the world to keep peace being so close together. I think it would be a great opportunity for a universal language and solidarity to develop. Perhaps that will be when communism can exist globally.

What do you think about the world as a supercontinent, comrades?

Please develop a sense of perspective, comrade. This post literally made me facepalm.

As to your question: It will most likely know a climate of extremes, just like Pangea and Gondwana land before it (and, in a lesser sense, Siberia today). Life, if it is to live on the inner area of this continent, has to evolve a highly efficient way of watermanagement to survive (this is, incidentally, how the dinosaurs got the upperhand last time around).

[Rafiq]

Well fuck, modern humans haven't been around for a million years yet, civilized humans no less. I don't know if we'll be around by then.

[Lenina Rosenweg]

The novels by the 1920s British Marxist science fiction writer Olaf Stapledon actually are about the future of the human race millions of years in the future.They are worth checking out.

http://olafstapledonarchive.webs.com/

The Future Is Wild is a funky BBC series which covers the evolution of life on earth through the next 200 million years, assuming humanity becomes extinct.. Its on youtube and is fun to watch.

edit: I'm not sure if Stapledon was a Marxist.My guess is that he was leaning in that direction. Starmaker and First and Last Men have a dialectical theme about human evolution over vast periods of time.

[Yuppie Grinder]

I've been wondering what the world will be like when the continents are once again connected as they used to be. I can't imagine how difficult it will be for all of the countries of the world to keep peace being so close together.

You'd hope that we'd be without nations by then, that is if we're still even around.

[Soomie]

You'd hope that we'd be without nations by then, that is if we're still even around.

I would hope so. Though, when I talk to people about it their response is that we will have exploited everything on earth by then and probably would have the technology to just go find another planet to exploit and continue capitalism. They also think this is acceptable (especially my Astronomy teacher who I'm pretty sure lives in a bubble of his own imagination). The fact that people think it's okay to destroy the planet and the life on it for the sake of something as unimportant as profit infuriates me. There are more important things, dam***!

[Jimmie Higgins]

What do you think about the world as a supercontinent, comrades?Well as others have said - there are just too many variables possible over that length of time to make any reasonable speculation to what kinds of human organization or relations would or would not be impacted by that eventuality - not to mention, as others have said, if humans (as we know us) will even be around at that point. If we haven't all gone extinct maybe we will exist as engineered viruses or as a mechanical consiousness - or have flying cars by then :lol:.

One thing: if there are still roads, road-trips would be awesome!

Another thing: LaRouche's plans for a trans-world rail system will finally stop sounding irrational in about 5 million years.

[Blake's Baby]

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One thing: if there are still roads, road-trips would be awesome!
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As if Alaska to Tierra Del Fuego isn't awesome, as if the North Cape to the Cape of Good Hope isn't awesome, as if Spain to Singapore isn't awesome, as if Senegal to Kamchatka isn't awesome...

What do you want, man??!!??

[Jimmie Higgins]

As if Alaska to Tierra Del Fuego isn't awesome, as if the North Cape to the Cape of Good Hope isn't awesome, as if Spain to Singapore isn't awesome, as if Senegal to Kamchatka isn't awesome...

What do you want, man??!!??To drive without ever having to turn around at any point:lol:

[Flying Purple People Eater]

Pfft. We'll be well off earth by then. With the introduction of ultra-telepathic machinarum and the relinquishing of the final form of private property, the brain, we - the humanic hivemind - shall scour the universe, galactic conquest after galactic conquest, terraforming every single world to suit our needs and CRUSHING the inferior local incompatibles!

Soon, comrades, soon. We......no...we are one...I WILL BECOME THE KING OF SPACE!!!

[Blake's Baby]

To drive without ever having to turn around at any point:lol:

Hovercar. Then it won't matter if you're on land or sea anyway.

Otherwise, you could just get them to build a bridge from Alaska to Kamchatka, then you could drive from Tierra del Fuego up the Transamerica Highway, turn left across into Russia, down to the Carpathians, turn left into the Balkans, turn left again to cross the Bosphorus bridge, turn right and down through the Near East, turn right again into North Africa, then left and it's straight down to the Cape of Good Hope.

You miss out Australia and Antarctica that way but it would be a pretty amazing journey. And only 6 turns to do 5 continents (one of them twice).

[Jimmie Higgins]

Hovercar. Then it won't matter if you're on land or sea anyway.

Otherwise, you could just get them to build a bridge from Alaska to Kamchatka, then you could drive from Tierra del Fuego up the Transamerica Highway, turn left across into Russia, down to the Carpathians, turn left into the Balkans, turn left again to cross the Bosphorus bridge, turn right and down through the Near East, turn right again into North Africa, then left and it's straight down to the Cape of Good Hope.

You miss out Australia and Antarctica that way but it would be a pretty amazing journey. And only 6 turns to do 5 continents (one of them twice).Sounds good to me! I'll gas up the car and pick you up, say in 100 years once that's built :lol:

[Blake's Baby]

Sure, I'm certain I could meet you somewhere in Central Russia. I'll wear a hat so you know it's me.