You wish for the world to be formed as Pangea again.
thats either
a) what pieces exist today are formed together, as retarded pangea.
or
b) full on time set staging, of prior pangea.
What MAJOR changes in the world today?
Function of Environment?
-ecosystem differentials
(ex. do we see the elimination of the common squirrel, by the super collective of the exotic chipmunk?)
(ex. Do the Asian hybrid jungle trees - destroy the temperate collective of alaska/california, or do we see dead against dead fall out, creating a wasteland inbetween?)
Function of People?
(ex. mad max type nomad wars, from those people left to be disregarded in the great expanse of centralized society?)
Function of Waters?
(ex. What will the vast expanse of outter waters be like? Will the edges of Pangea, be an endless rage of thunder and crashing waters? )
Oil reservoir conditions? Capability of outer water drilling?
How would they quadrant Pangea to make it as effectively productive as possible, to todays standards of commerce and industry. If it happened over night, under everyone’s noses?
(I’ll leave you with this, if we rounded up all the washed up druggies, trying to recover, or needing life occupancy to keep them assertive, we could put them to task, in major landfills, with mobile-tower conveyer lines , to sort out all plastic/metal goods, keeping the rate of recycling up, and efficiency of human progress in order. Now. Consider a newly implemented Pangea, with all of the worlds Hustle and Bustle)
Umm…wait…I’m confused – largely because I don’t have one of those geological timeline posters in front of me to remind me of the various XYZ-ocene periods and their details.
But wasn’t the original Pangea a methane-laden, oceans barely receded yet, pre-oxygen world with a chunk of dirt in the middle? I would think that would preclude Effects on People (or squirrels, etc.) because it’s still just solitary bacteria swhirshing around in a huge soup, isn’t it?
Are there Terror Birds involved? Cause I think if we’re going back to some kind of ancient world the existence of 10 ft tall flightless birds that can run 65 mph and can club humans to death with their feet needs to be taken into account.
And Terror Birds with saddles ridden by nomadic warriors armed with swords would make it even more interesting. Could unmounted warriors armed with bolos take them down?
Why stop with concerns about mundane concerns, I’m all for explorations of the co-existence of humans and gigantic birds!
Wait, what? Everything I know about djinni says that the only ethical choice to make with one wish is to wish them the fuck back into the bottle. So, leaving aside the question of why I am wasting my one wish on re-Pangeafying the world (seriously, why would I do that?), if I did do such a completely ludicrous thing, the next thing that would happen is that the unleashed djinn would proceed to shit all over everything and the specifics of geography wouldn’t mean anything.
Honestly, give me one wish and I’m going to carefully craft a wish to get me off into my own pocket universe that I’ll be quite happy in and that’ll be djinn free, but I certainly won’t be wishing for pan–fucking-gea.
I’ve seen those time travelin’ movies. They always tell you that anything changed in the past negatively affects the present and may well lead to you never being born. :eek:
I want to remain alive, for the moment at least. Non-existence sounds so boring.
If the genie wants to do me a solid, he can give us all free cable tv and internet.
It seems to me that the oceans would be too far from the interior to feed it rain. You’d end up with something like Australia, where the edges are habitable but the center is desert.
It would take a while to identify and exploit the new best areas for growing food. I expect a majority of current farmland would wind up to dry, or too cold, or too whatever for the traditional crops. Agriculture and husbandry would be the new growth industries.
Yea, the practical effect of waking up tomorrow with the landmasses rearranged would be mass starvation as the breadbaskets of the world stop getting rain.
I think moving all the land masses back together would also mess up the tides/currents. So this would result in some dramatic weather changes - either ice age, or baking hot.
Provided the weather settled out “enough”, there would be mass extinctions as well as mass population explosions of various animals as previously separated species are now co-mingling.
As to how people would respond, it would be nice to think that people would say “hey, now that we’re all in the same ‘house’, let’s play nice together”. But as history repeatedly shows, it would more likely result in “stay off my turf” and wars a plenty would ensue.
So what’s the silver lining ?: makes the whole international dateline thing much easier to handle (“today” is the same day for everyone)