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I was going to say that the landmasses could have been pretty different back then. But I took a quick look and it looks like they were broadly in the same place

I was going to say that the landmasses could have been pretty different back then. But I took a quick look and it looks like they were broadly in the same place with respect to N / S hemispheres.

CommieBobDole 5y ago
Yep, 65 million years ago was really not that far from the present, geologically speaking. https://dinosaurpictures.org/ancient-earth#66 https://dinosaurpictures.org/ancient-earth#66
- erulabs 5y ago
  Wow India is really headed north in a hurry.
  - mcherm 5y ago
    Yes it is! Hence the mountains.
  - deleted 5y ago
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  - GekkePrutser 5y ago
    And South America and Africa were still quite close together.. the Pacific is even bigger than it is now. Literally a whole half side of the planet filled with water
    - yesenadam 5y ago
      > Literally a whole half side of the planet filled with water It still looks like that today! A host of images showing it: https://www.google.com/search?q=view+of+earth+pacific+ocean&tbm=isch https://www.google.com/search?q=view+of+earth+pacific+ocean&...
      - robga 5y ago
        The “Water Hemisphere” is 89% water. The “Land Hemisphere” is 85% land. The location [0] may be a little surprising. The shared view above is deceptive due to the land at the edges. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_and_water_hemispheres#/media/File%3AHemisphere_water.png https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_and_water_hemispheres#/...
        yesenadam 5y ago
        > The “Land Hemisphere” is 85% land. Interesting. Not sure where you got that 85% figure though: >> even in the land hemisphere, the water area still slightly exceeds the land area (with 53 percent water to 47 percent land)
        robga 5y ago
        You’re right. Thanks for the clarification. 85% of Earth’s land is in the Land hemisphere.
- eatsyourtacos 5y ago
  Ugh why does it keep turning on rotation when changing the dropdown! I'm trying to fix on a single point and move backwards in time to see the change but it keeps rotating the global every time... weird default functionality. edit: weird, now it seems to work fine. I was disabling the 'rotate global' but it wasn't taking effect before
  - krick 5y ago
    Display options -> Rotate globe
- YaBomm 5y ago

I was going to say that the landmasses could have been pretty different back then. But I took a quick look and it looks like they were broadly in the same place with respect to N / S hemispheres.

CommieBobDole 5y ago

Yep, 65 million years ago was really not that far from the present, geologically speaking. https://dinosaurpictures.org/ancient-earth#66 https://dinosaurpictures.org/ancient-earth#66

erulabs 5y ago
Wow India is really headed north in a hurry.
- mcherm 5y ago
  Yes it is! Hence the mountains.
- deleted 5y ago
  [deleted]
- GekkePrutser 5y ago
  And South America and Africa were still quite close together.. the Pacific is even bigger than it is now. Literally a whole half side of the planet filled with water
  - yesenadam 5y ago
    > Literally a whole half side of the planet filled with water It still looks like that today! A host of images showing it: https://www.google.com/search?q=view+of+earth+pacific+ocean&tbm=isch https://www.google.com/search?q=view+of+earth+pacific+ocean&...
    - robga 5y ago
      The “Water Hemisphere” is 89% water. The “Land Hemisphere” is 85% land. The location [0] may be a little surprising. The shared view above is deceptive due to the land at the edges. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_and_water_hemispheres#/media/File%3AHemisphere_water.png https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_and_water_hemispheres#/...
      - yesenadam 5y ago
        > The “Land Hemisphere” is 85% land. Interesting. Not sure where you got that 85% figure though: >> even in the land hemisphere, the water area still slightly exceeds the land area (with 53 percent water to 47 percent land)
        robga 5y ago
        You’re right. Thanks for the clarification. 85% of Earth’s land is in the Land hemisphere.
eatsyourtacos 5y ago
Ugh why does it keep turning on rotation when changing the dropdown! I'm trying to fix on a single point and move backwards in time to see the change but it keeps rotating the global every time... weird default functionality. edit: weird, now it seems to work fine. I was disabling the 'rotate global' but it wasn't taking effect before
- krick 5y ago
  Display options -> Rotate globe
YaBomm 5y ago