• 0x4E4F@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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      They used to be together, before the asteroid hit that wiped out the dinosaurs. Then, the continents split.

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        The split of Gondwana has nothing to do with the asteroid that whiped out dinosaurs. It startet to split way before the impact. The asteroid hit the earth ~66 million years ago, but Gondwana already startet to split ~150 million years ago.

        The continent split because of the drift of the tectonic plates

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          Unrelated, but when I was a kid I thought China and Japan were a united land mass until WW2 when we nuked Japan, then it floated off into the ocean. This reminded me of that a little bit

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          Yeah, I know it started to drift because of the shift of the tectonic plates, but didn’t know that the drift started happening before the asteroid impact. I thought the impact triggered the shift.

          Thanks for the info 👍 ☺️.

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        Just like the previous Lemming, this still doesn’t explain what the joke is to me. What’s that got to do with communism?

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          I suppose it’s the “we ised to be together, it used to be our continent, now we’re separated”.

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            I suppose it’s the “we ised to be together, it used to be our continent, now we’re separated”.

            Yeah and it might have something to uniting continents with Communism ( or Sino- Russian imperialism) as in the end you see the Hammer and the Sickle.