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Researchers Complete New Gondwana Map

Posted by samzenpus on from the old-directions dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A new computer simulated map has revealed the past position of the Australian, Antarctic and Indian tectonic plates, demonstrating how they formed the supercontinent Gondwana 165 million years ago. 'It was a simple technique, matching the geological boundaries on each plate. The geological units formed before the continents broke apart, so we used their position to put this ancient jigsaw puzzle back together again,' said Lloyd White of Royal Holloway University in a press release. 'We found that many existing studies had positioned the plates in the wrong place because the geological units did not align on each plate.'"

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  1. Google maps? by drwho · · Score: 5, Funny

    When is google maps going to have this? I want to trace where my house was back then.

    1. Re:Google maps? by Extremus · · Score: 5, Funny

      Sir, you have a really old house.

    2. Re:Google maps? by terrab0t · · Score: 5, Funny

      It's not so surprising when you look at his username.

      That also explains how he grabbed such a low user ID number.

  2. Re:Earth by maxwell+demon · · Score: 5, Funny

    For God, a thousand years are like a day. But a year has 365 days (ignoring leap days for simplicity), so 5000 years have about 9 million days. With every day counting as 1000 years, we arrive at an age of the world of about 9 billion years. This is clearly longer than 165 million years, so everything is fine.

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  3. Re:Earth by Black+Parrot · · Score: 4, Funny

    The God created Earth 5000 years ago. There is no evidence of Gondwana plate or even Earth 165 million years ago.

    Tectonic plate theory, geophysics, botany and a host of other branches of science respectfully disagrees with you.

    Even creationists say he's off by a thousand years...

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  4. This will be very handy... by gestalt_n_pepper · · Score: 4, Funny

    The next time I take vacation in Gondwanaland.

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  5. Re:Earth by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    God couldn't have created Earth 5000 years ago since man didn't create God until 2000 years ago.

  6. Re:Video of Australia, Antarctica, India Breakup by Michael+Woodhams · · Score: 4, Funny

    Man, India moves fast. I hope it's looking where it's going or it could hit something. That would mush up a continent pretty bad.

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  7. Re:Earth by maxwell+demon · · Score: 5, Funny

    The devil is in the details, therefore God does not support the details, because that would mean to support the devil.

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