• disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Are you referring to the magnetic pole switch? That happens every 200-1M years, according to patterns on the seafloor. It’s been estimated that the last reversal was 780,000 years ago, so it theoretically could be any day now.

    With that being said, I doubt that humanity will agree to turn all maps 180° to correspond.

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      2 months ago

      I was referring to continental drift. Places move a lot in under 200 million years. Eg https://youtu.be/uLahVJNnoZ4

      So my post was a bit sarcastic that eventually it will have a coast but not on any time frame to matter to the human species. :)

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      2 months ago

      Laschamp event! I just edited a related wiki page on late Pleistocene extinctions. Spoiler alert: it didn’t kill the megafauna.