Man in a few million years that tweet is gonna look hella dumb
remindmebot@lemmy.world 8 million years
New Pangea will just be one big mountain
The Appalachians have been mountains longer than North America has been a continent
To the extent that a portion of the mountain chain that formed the Appalachian Mountains is in Europe. The Appalachians were a part of the Central Pangean mountain system, which makes them older than the Atlantic Ocean.
They’ve seen some shit.
That’s kind of awesome to think about.
I’m picturing myself on Pangea. The mountains in front of me are taller than the Himalayas today. These are the Appalachians. Oh no, a dinosaur! Look out, duck! Huh, that’s not a duck that’s a QUETZALCOATLUS! Everybody run! How can we outrun a QUETZALCOATLUS?!?!?! AAAHHHHHH.
Isn’t it beautiful?
Wikipedia says they date back 480 million years, during the Ordovician period. I think the atmosphere would have been pretty breathable, but plants wouldn’t conquer the land in a serious way for at least another 60 million years or so, with bugs following them. Nothing saw those mountains. If you time-traveled to the Pangean mountains, you would be the only being to ever observe them in their formative years. Eons would pass before the first plant set root at their feet. The sterile and desolate emptiness would be beyond human experience.
I think the atmosphere would have been pretty breathable
HELLA breathable bruh…
Did you just snap a pic in your uni’s hallway
Wdym?
You don’t keep a correlated history of earth at your desk? What do you do if you forget which stage is the latest stage of the upper Devonian, Frasnian or Famennian?
That’s intense. Must feel good when you get to whip it out
WTH? There’s no ham radio bands on that glossy desk side chart!
I friggin love your cat figures they’re perfect
The couple of people who’ve been on the moon have seen that kind of emptiness
but plants wouldn’t conquer the land in a serious way for at least another 60 million years or so
…
Eons would pass before the first plant set root at their feet.Pretty sure the mountains will still be there. Spoiler alert. I started at the end of the book.
you would be the only being to ever observe them in their formative years.
…
The sterile and desolate emptiness would be beyond human experience.That’s badass though. Except that we might be returning to that sterile and desolate emptiness here shortly.
Also, don’t forget that fungi, algae, and lichen colonized dry land before the plants arrived, paving the way for them by eating rocks and pooping dirt.
And through it all, the mountains can all agree…trump is the biggest piece of shit they’ve ever heard of.
And as old as that is, sharks are older than the mountains.
Sharks are older than the North Star. Not as in Polaris wasn’t pointing north yet when the sharks evolved, but as in it hadn’t formed yet.
They’re older than Saturn’s rings
So are sharks.
They’re the bones of the world dawg. It’s why there’s so much spooky scary shit here (I live in Appalachia.)
Not just the bones of the world, they’re older than bones.
Older than trees.
Older than bones.
Drones from land masses that don’t exist anymore.
There is rock in the Appalachian mountains without coal seams, because many formed in places before the land biomass that made coal and oil existed.
They contain layers of fossils from ancient whales back to small crustaceans.
480 million years ago trilobites were being heft out of the sea by the Appalachians.
The Appalachians existed for 20 million years before bearing witness to a million year long meteor shower from the L-chondrite debris that gave the earth temporary rings.
This is th e best comment I’ve read on lemmy for a long time. Fascinating info and well written. Thanks for taking the time.
And prominence of many is still impressive. And there’s Mount Washington, where it’s so crazy you can’t predict the weather 15 minutes out.
And the white man brought inbreeding to those hallowed peaks and expects it to be celebrated
Deliverance wasn’t a celebration of culture.
They’re both gorgeous. Why do we have to pit two queens against one another?
Because one is prettier and it’s not even close
Not everyone likes huge Mountains, smaller ones are perfectly fine, even preferred!
I love the ones that won’t hold a pencil under them.
Yeah that’s why the Olympics are the crown jewel of the US
Sure, the mature East Coast Lady wins…
I love my Cascades and the Rockies are majestic and impressive, but the Appalachians are basically the wizened old crones of mountains. They’re weird and mysterious. They’re full of forests and traditions and stories. They demand respect.
Also, listen, folks from the eastern Midwest are barely used to hills then having to drive through them is scary.
I’m in Minnesota and I get super carsick just driving in Wisconsin. I’ve gone up the mountain on Orcas island in Washington and it was very beautiful but I actually thought I was gonna hurl. It feels just like those pirate ship carnival rides. I really don’t know how people ride those without getting sick.
However the small mountains (more like big hills tbh) along the north shore of Lake Superior are fine and don’t make sick at all for some reason.
Pallisade head! I love the north shore. Moved away and miss it quite a bit
Ah, yes. The Old Gods of Appalachia.
Don’t forget, they are older and LOCATED IN THE RIGHT SPOT! Fucking Rockies just decide to pop up wherever they feel like.
Edit: spelling is hard
I don’t know. The Appalachians technically span an ocean. Though, they have a different name on the other side.
Both span an ocean …?
Thats cute.
Look at the danish mountains and despair!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himmelbjerget
Sky Mountain! a whopping peak height of 140m elevation. A hike so deadly that it is a time honored tradition to let our kindergarten aged children ‘climb’ it. Takes an afternoon (barely) and theres a small giftshop selling icecream and knick knacks on top of it.
Try and best that yanks! 😎
Sky mountains?
Oh wow even the Netherlands that is as flat as a pancake and half the country sits below sea level has a higher mountain
the dutch and the danish, united in having a flat as fuck country and a love for pastries ✊
And bicycles
Just love the first sentence
“Himmelbjerget (“The Sky Mountain” or “The Mountain of Heaven”) is a hill”
that whole country walks up for gatherings.
Sky Mountain? Then it’s basically the same as the Tian Shan ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
My hometown has a “mountain” almost twice as tall as this. And it’s nowhere near the Alps or Rocky Mountains.
Its not the height, it’s the age. Thar be eldritch monsters in the Appalachians. Rockies is just aliens and (Gay) Bigfoot
The Appalachians are older than trees and bones and exist across three continents.
Shit. Sierra Nevadas are straight up on fire.
Hey now, do you really think all the eldritch monsters just stayed in the appalachians? No.
Thats why there are skinwalkers in the rockies; they’re just wendigo that heard there were taller mountains forming in the west and decided to migrate over.
/s
You shouldn’t talk about those things.
Western trails: Ascend on nicely-graded switchbacks.
Eastern trails: Ascend straight up a seasonal creek bed.
That’s actually incredibly real
I about died on old butt knob in NC at my peak fitness
Hehe, butt knob
If you like that one, check out Beaver Lick and Big Bone Lick.
Bunch of dick themed mountains in Maine too
Million to one shot, Doc. Million to one.
This guy hikes
The thing about mountains is that they’re all big when you’re at the bottom of them
Mountains get so big because they have no natural predators.
- Ken M.
A decent number of the Appalachians have roads that go near the top.
So does Pikes Peak in Colorado, all the way up 14,000 feet.
That just means they have better engineers and braver drivers, or the mountains are older and they had more time
braver drivers,
I used to joke that there were no bad drivers in WV, you either learned how to drive or you fell twenty feet off the road and got impaled by a tree. Unfortunately, since I was a kid we’ve put guard rails on a lot of those places.
whatever you do, just don’t live down there
No worries: those server chunks haven’t been explored yet. Give it time.
Gonna fall into the ocean
The Sierra Nevadas are no joke. If you drive through them in wintertime you are absolutely taking a risk, not only because you’re driving on windy (if well-maintained) mountain highways, but you may get stuck in snow despite your chains and will freeze to death.
If you are lucky, a CHP or forest ranger may see you and help you out.
Heaven forbid you have engine trouble or run out of fuel.
DO NOT TAKE SHORTCUTS THROUGH THE SIERRAS!
STICK TO ESTABLISHED TRAILS!
Nah, me and my elephants will cross it, and they shall not expect it!
But that Hastings guy said this route would save like 2 weeks!
I live in the Sierras and always keep a change of clothes, 72 hours of food and water (plus filter), a small pack, fishing gear and a radio in my car. You never know what could happen. I’ve had quick fishing trips turn into unplanned overnighters and had snow or fallen trees or wildfires block roads at all times of the year. We have exactly 2 roads into and out of our little valley.
May wanna add a camping saw or chainsaw to your kit.
Ours are older and were taller.
The geographical feature that you have no control over is for losers.
What’s that? Can’t hear you, I’m a mile above sea level and breathing the freshest god damn air on Earth.
Up? Where all my smog goes?
Nice try, skylanders. I’m going underground, where the real fresh air is hiding.
How do you know our Deep Anthems?! Reveal your treasonous source, skylander!
if “my mountains can beat up your mountains” is some element of the conversation, i’m not talking at all, i’m walking the other direction
What if it’s a titty fight, but nobody wants to say the word titty?
my moobs can beat up your mountains
I found out that pierced nipples give you an edge in titty fighting
I’ve found they’re a double edged sword, they do great until your bar is stuck in her ring…
Let the titties do the talkin
South America looks at both and snorts… “You call those mountains!!” These babies are started with the breakup of Pangea and are still growing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andes
First time I was flying into Santiago, I was amazed when we hit 3,000m and looked way up at the mountains out the window.
They also have the only empire we know of that used mountains as its imperial core rather than as internal boundaries. Even Rome which was located in the famously mountainous Italy and was a land power treated the mountains as an inconvenience. But the Inca were just like “fuck you, we’re mountain people”
We get it, people from the west coast, you’re better than us, we fucking get it.
Y’all can find something else to jack off about now.
Hey, while you might not win on education, healthcare, quality of life or cultural attitudes towards racism, you can always come at the west coast over this BS:
“It’S tHe IcE tHaTs ThE pRoBlEm” sure, and the fact there’s eight whole plows in the entire state and nobody even understands the concept of winter tires is just totally unrelated…
(/j ❤️)
In general, ICE is always the problem. Even in Las Vegas.
The eternal enemy of Minnesota
Seattle, just the city limits of Seattle, has hills taller than things I’ve heard people in the midwest call mountains.
That being said, yeah, you are absolutely correct that almost fucking nobody in the PNW knows jack shit about driving in the snow.
They also know jack shit about driving in the rain, which is… baffling for hopefully obvious reasons.
Yeah the elevation makes driving in snow scary. People in the PNW also can’t fucking drive on flat snow, but I get it, I learned to drive under the lake effect. But yeah this is easy mode rain driving. The wind isn’t pushing you, there’s no surprise rivers, it’s just wet ground with your wipers on and it’s like that for half the year. You don’t bother using an umbrella, why can’t you drive in this rain
I learned how to drive in the snow because I grew up in the foothills, the boonies. Snow and inclines, flash floods, windstorms take down so many trees that all the routes to … fucking anywhere are blocked for days to a week, along with the power grid.
I, foolishly, expected that that was normal, that everybody learned how treacherous weather can be on driving.
All these damn city slickers just be fucking playing bumper cars, watchin their tiktoks, gorramit!
Ptooie!
Oh yeah folks out here can barely handle snow unless it’s on a mountain, even up north where it snows. Meanwhile my Ohioan ass can’t deal with ice + elevation, but I kinda love driving on ice about once or twice a year. Give me a blizzard that cuts the power out over a heat wave with no AC.
I also miss windstorms, thunderstorms, and tornadoes. The sky should try to kill you from time to time. It keeps you sharp. Fuck noreasters and hurricanes though, that’s too much.
Nah, this is more fun to jack off to. Speaking of, have y’all heard how terrible the Cali Burritos are out east?
I’ve never even heard of a Cali Burrito. Is it made of acid rain and somehow simultaneously water shortages?
It’s a Pittsburgh sandwich but burrito form and with guac. I had to look it up and am not impressed, just like the Pittsburghers failed to impress me. The fries are better on the side dang it
Hey I get this reference. Sick meta.
You’d think if it were true they wouldn’t spend so much time trying to prove it. They doth protest too much
Right?
It legitimately just leaves a bad taste in my mouth regarding the west coast and particularly California
And I don’t want to feel like that! Like I know those places are cool and have beautiful natural settings and intelligent people and awesome culture.
You don’t have to trash talk the entire other half of the country to convince me that you guys have merit.
It’s low-key what someone with incredibly low self esteem does.
I think it’s similar to how the US as a whole is. We’re a young country so we felt we had to prove ourselves for a long time, but eventually everyone got the message and we held prestige, but we were still insecure and bragging which wound up making us look worse.
Within the country, the west coast had a similar experience. California had to prove it’s worth against established and respected places like Philadelphia and New York. But we all get it now. Everyone knows it’s awesome out here, and the Eastern prestige largely just remains in the coastal cities, and it’s not like people are moving to Hartford to make it big anymore. And it feels like rubbing it in when you’ve got places like the Rust Belt that continue to struggle.
It’s true, got no mountains here. Go vacation somewhere else.
Going crazy trying to figure out where you’re standing for that angle. From the south west?
Pretty sure I’m at the top of Jackson slide on colden looking at Algonquin.
Actually maybe cruciflyer
Oh shit, I thought I was looking at Washington from a funny angle. I always forget about the 'Dacks, typical Maine behavior.
That’s not really much of a mountain.
Yeah, I said don’t come here.
I’ve been there. It was cute.
Brother, I live in a valley that is higher elevation than the peaks of your mountain
Bro that’s a hill.
I mean that’s a nice hill, I guess. I can see taller ones in every cardinal direction from my house.
Pretty sure I said, go somewhere else
