26 Aug 06
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Originally posted by pizzinteaActually it was before the time they started, about 400
Anyone realize that scientists think there used to be one giant continent. Can someone refresh my memory of the name? Was when dinosaurs roamed the earth.
million years ago, I think that was the last time the continents all banged together. If I am not mistaken, it's also not the first time they whacked together. Its kind of like dust on a soap bubble, you can see how those dust particles slide around, just on a teeny bit faster time scale. Here is a link:
http://cas.bellarmine.edu/tietjen/Ec&Ev_Distance_learning/Hell/geologic_time.htm
26 Aug 06
Originally posted by sonhouseWhat does this mean then?
Actually it was before the time they started, about 400
million years ago, I think that was the last time the continents all banged together. If I am not mistaken, it's also not the first time they whacked together. Its kind of like dust on a soap bubble, you can see how those dust particles slide around, just on a teeny bit faster time scale. Here is a link:
http://cas.bellarmine.edu/tietjen/Ec&Ev_Distance_learning/Hell/geologic_time.htm
http://www.isgs.uiuc.edu/faq/dino-faqs/pdq207.html
26 Aug 06
Originally posted by pizzinteaLike I said, it happened more than once, around 400 million BC and again at 225 mil. Thats when dino's got started, the second time around. It could happen again in another couple hundred million years also, not that anyone would be around to see it!
Why is it sometimes spelled pangea and pangaea?
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26 Aug 06
Originally posted by amannionBecause the Americans decided that as a revenge for us defending them from the French (napoleon) and then taxing them to pay for it, They would not only ungratefully throw us out of their country (although at the time, technically, it was our country, and yes I am aware that England didn't exactly do themselves any favours diplomatically at this point) but create a new language, by simply rewriting the rules of spelling and grammar, but give it the same name so that people would be confused and mix the spellings up. This plot is carried on today by Microsoft and its evil empire. It is not English UK and English US, but English and American.
Why is colour sometimes spelt color?
The vagaries of the english language ...
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26 Aug 06
Originally posted by googlefudgeIt was a rhetorical question actually.
Because the Americans decided that as a revenge for us defending them from the French (napoleon) and then taxing them to pay for it, They would not only ungratefully throw us out of their country (although at the time, technically, it was our country, and yes I am aware that England didn't exactly do themselves any favours diplomatically at this point) b ...[text shortened]... and its evil empire. It is not English UK and English US, but English and American.
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30 Aug 06
Originally posted by pizzinteaThe greek word that was the root of the word "Pangaea" had three vowels at the end; aia. This is where the "aea" comes from I imagine. However people pronounce the word such that "Pangea" seems more intuitively correct.
Why is it sometimes spelled pangea and pangaea?
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I think.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangaea