Animation showing Pangaea and movement of the plates - from MOUNTAIN BUILDING LESSON 11

[XRandomXShinigamiX]

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[xaxie1]

Can we just stop all these arguements and watch the video!

[MrYuGiOhScaler]

His voice is good for telling bed time story ^-^

[vagabondwiz]

What's with the interspersed clips of Neanderthal man roaming around in pants?

[absmukherjee]

@vagabondwiz - why is this not top rated

[CrazyLyricsLicious]

Wow, that is... creepy O_O

[TheInternetizen]

However that is all just a personal attack on you, which ignores the fact that a "Growing Earth" theory does not require any sort of matter accumulation. Water grows as it freezes, metal shrinks as it cools, and time "slows down" as you approach the speed of light, yet, you feel that you are the authority on what the physics of this theory would entail. That is my contention, that you are a loud mouthed imbecile. The funny thing is: I am not even a proponent of this theory, fool, I just found it

[Ankitsharma755]

what a amazing and interesting geography i like it

[xAceMCcloudx]

Nobody knows what really happened because none of us were around when the earth was forming into what we know it as today. All these teorys about 2012 are bull, its gonna take alot of factors in order for total destruction of this planet to occur.

[Haaramika]

I CANT STAND IGNORANTT PPL DONT SAII SOMETHING DID NOT HAPPEN UNTIL U HAVE PROOF NOT JUST UR OPINION....EVERY1 HAVE THREIR OWN OPINION BUT I MEAN I HATE IT WHEN PPL SAII THEY KNOW IT DID NOT HAPPEN.....

[desigirl19911]

ummmm...i don't think thats pangaea....

[jbbeast123]

hi i am 12 years old and my name is pangea isnt that awsome my parents got the name from the science museum of mn so isnt that cool

[giuffre714]

What about Hawaii? If we couldn't see it rising from the ocean right before our eyes I'm sure they would say where it used to be attached to. I know that plates move and I'm sure that some land masses did separate just as others surely slammed together. I just find it hard to believe that before the earth had water 100% of the area above future sea levels were connected.

[desigirl19911]

@giuffre714 "before the earth had water"? what do u mean by that? Earth always had water, it didn't always have land though

[giuffre714]

@desigirl19911 Yes the earth always had water, I meant liquid water. The Earth used to be very hot. It had water in the form of vapor. I'm sure more water was added from comets crashing into us. It wasn't until the Earth cooled did the water vapor turn into clouds, and produce rain creating the oceans.

[giuffre714]

@desigirl19911 Our sun (star) is slowly dying. It used to be much hotter. When it was mars had liquid water. Mars is a preview of the Earth's future. Venus is a glimpse into Earth's past. When our star slowly cools Venus will have liquid water. The Earth's water will eventually freeze. I afraid we are all at the mercy of our little yellow star.

[Dying2k1ll]

I disagree. From what i have read the sun is growing and getting larger and within the next 4-6 billion years the suns gravity will pull earth in thus destroying it. I would say Venus is a look into Earths future with the current rate Co2 is being pumped into our atmosphere, We are just going to have a runaway greenhouse effect leading to Saudi Arabia temperatures in the Midwest USA. I would say it will eventually get to hot and humans will die out or our population will decrease greatly

[giuffre714]

@Dying2k1ll Maybe, but our sun was MUCH hotter than it is now when it was white. My point was that the odds of all land above sea level on earth being all in the same place at the same time are astronomical.

[Residenteviladicted]

@Dying2k1ll Who really cares, we wont be alive then right? =P *sorry for sounding like an ass. XD*

[JudgeJulieLit]

@giuffre714 Fascinating astronomical-trend facts ... thank you! But now that we see the trend that Earth's water will freeze, Earth's scientists have -- eons? from now -- to invent strategies (the heat of controlled nuclear fission/fusion?) to pre-heat Earth's oceans and lesser waterways and collects, to avert pan-freezing.

[giuffre714]

@JudgeJulieLit I think that eventually, we're gonna have to move.

[Farlig66]

@TheAdamWallace wrong! Doh!!!! Some science teacher you make sir - please check your facts & edit your post...

[muhbawz]

@okumaOkuma "larva created the continents"? hmm, do go on...

[muhbawz]

0:27 "so easy, a caveman could do it!"

[guyNbluejeans]

Is that Neil Young or is it the Geico guy?

[LexiBrieBetterTV]

I understood the words "earth" and "waters" the rest came out like "nerdy word, nerdy word, blah"

[nekroneko]

This theory is a joke and wrong. Research the expanding earth theory. The earth is expanding currently at 18mm a year according to NASA's figures between 1987 and 2010

[series1riv]

@nekroneko cmon people think... this is the only guy here that is correct... all the continents DID fit perfectly in a SPHERE till all this WATER accumulated here... making the oceans, seas, lakes etc. Its so simple it AMAZES me so many people dont see the truth...

[series1riv]

@nekroneko in fact if Im not mistaken its the entire UNIVERSE that is expanding and everything in it...

[Dracopol]

@nekroneko Wrong. Neal Adams, a mentally-ill comic-book designer, is promoting the claim that the Earth expanded in the last 200 million years and then STOPPED, accounting for the ocean beds. He signs up with lots of different aliases to try to promote that nonsense.

[nekroneko]

@Dracopol It may be comforting for you to tell yourself he's mentally ill, but that aside, Neal Adams got me interested in the subject and the more I look at it the more it makes sense. I don't believe Neal said it had stopped growing and in fact stated that it is in a state of exponential growth. Just because something is a fringe science doesn't stop it from being true, and there are a few scientists and I'd wager geologists who agree to a Growing Earth theory too.

[Dracopol]

@nekroneko Not only is he mentally ill, I think YOU'RE Neal himself. He creates lots of aliases to make it look like people agree with him. But he leaves totally unexplained and implausible the creation of quadrillions of metric tons of matter, out of nothingness, needed to make the Earth expand. Fringe is fringe. "Expanding Earth" doesn't explain the coastlines any better than plate tectonics, and creates massive problems of its own like magical creation of matter.

[nekroneko]

@Dracopol Dismiss me as a Neal Adams "alias" if you wish, but it wont remove the argument either way. Of course the acumulation of matter is an issue, I don't claim to know the answer, but maybe because I'm too left brained that I can see this much easier than you can, I have exceptional visualisation ability and I enjoy science and I am stunned this is being dismissed because no one can explain how matter can be created. I guess we will have to wait until someone discovers how it works

[Dracopol]

@nekroneko Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof, and claims of QUINTILLIONS of tons of matter that just popped up out of nowhere (with only the express purpose of justifying Neal Adam's daffy theory) are to be summarily IGNORED.

[TheInternetizen]

@Dracopol The universe is expanding at an ever accelerating rate, and has been since the big bang. This is something we can't really explain. The composition of the universe is ~70% dark energy, ~%25 dark matter, and ~%5 normal matter. We don't know shit about dark energy. We know dark matter isn't anitmatter. 95% of the universe is a mysterious force we don't understand.

With these facts, are you really telling me its impossible that earth can't accumulate any of this mysterious energy/matter?

[Dracopol]

@TheInternetizen Hahaha, it does not mean that INDIVIDUAL objects in the universe are actually getting bigger! Hi, Neal!

[TheInternetizen]

@Dracopol I didn't say it is proof of such. I am simply saying that scientist and the greatest minds' understanding of the universe is very limited to the point of hilarity. Your understanding is so far below that, that you literally have no say in anything definitive on these types of non-understood things. The fact that you are taking a dedicated stance on this is analogous to a retard standing his ground that puppies are god's gift to man because they are so cute and fluffy shouting down ppl.

[Dracopol]

@TheInternetizen Hi, Neal! You are still faking other aliases to try to create favourable buzz for your loony theories. Scientists' understanding on this is not "limited": subduction and tectonic plates are proven six ways to Sunday. Looney theories, on the other hand, need to generate AT LEAST as many sound journal articles as the thick tomes for decades of what came before, to stand any credible chance of winning out. One madman's rigged animation is no proof.

[TheInternetizen]

@Dracopol Who is this Neal you keep referring to me as? I'm not promoting the growing earth theory, as I literally came across it just this week, I'm simply saying your logic that I referred to is flawed and simplistic. An accumulation of matter isn't even required for this theory, and even then, an accumulation of matter is hardly ruled out because you say so.

[Dracopol]

@TheInternetizen An accumulation of matter IS required, since Neal Adams' loony theory says the Earth doubled its radius in under 200 million years, so that means it suddenly had 8 times more matter than it did before. The alternative belief, that the DENSITY of rock was 8 times what it is NOW, is untenable, since no one can demonstrate a solid substance with density in the range 40 or so. I pointed this out to Neal Adams many times but all he has for people is insults and censorship.

[strataable]

@TheInternetizen dark energy does not constitute any of the mass of the universe, it is simply a theoretical construct used to explain the accelerating expansion of the universe as you stated. Dark matter constitutes around 83% of the mass of the universe, with visible matter taking the remaining 17%. Like dark energy, next to nothing is known about dark matter either- it is also a construct (or more accurately a placeholder) that allows physicists to explain why galaxies can remain coalesced

[strataable]

@TheInternetizen continuing - regarding this 'expanding earth' theory, i would cite occams razor. Is it more probable that the Earth has somehow accumulated 'dark matter' which is believed not to interact with ordinary matter- hence 'dark matter', or could it be that the formation of mountain ranges, continents and like could be explained, and proven, by plate tectonics?

[GXLZPGX]

Haha, see the [CC] box? Click it and choose transcribe audio, go to 2:11,

"And when the machines and condoms I know your dreams under your emotions"

[8osiris]

Lets say that pangaea was broken up when it was hit by Taimat. However that didn't occur until homo hablis or an even a more evolved version of man migrated around the continent. So when Taimat hit the earth, the aragnarock as it were, tested all the remaining survivors to the point of evolution from whence man occured. Thus having multiple sources of man, not just in africa. Shave a Chimp, it's white skinned.

[thxango40]

Love the music!

[TheMiraclesofJesus]

What is the image that looks like a head that the man is looking into?

[racheljayne2404]

so pangaea ='d eden ?

[DrHanFolstafe]

How is it that continents move back and forth? Will the Atlantic rift reverse itself and allow N. amer. and Africa to some day crash again?Why did the Atlantic ever open in the first place?

[ReligiousFiction]

@DrHanFolstafe - if your questions aren't rhetorical, then check out these sites:

ucmp (dot) berkeley (dot) edu/geology/tectonics (dot) html

pubs (dot) usgs (dot) gov/gip/dynamic/dynamic (dot) html

sos (dot) noa (dot) gov/index (dot) html

The short answer is that the super hot, molten inner core of the earth creates convection currents (the hot fluid rises and pushes on the earth's rocky plates), propelling them around the globe.

[itsdelaney16]

@ReligiousFiction

The plates are not go carts..Plates move laterally as the oceans grows. Both atlantic and pacific spread from the rifts and the oldest ocean basin is at the shore line

And the continents join on both the Atlantic and Pacific you are just showing half of the truth therefore it is a very fragmented concept without the entire picture of earth being 52 percent of its current size some 200-250 million years ago without an ocean basin..

[ReligiousFiction]

@itsdelaney16 Your comments and lack of reference to the sites I mentioned show me that you're probably not actually interested in the truth. Did you look at those sites?

Please provide a source for your claim that the earth was 52% smaller millions of years ago.

[zed474]

The "Growing Earth" theory presumes a rate of accumulation of matter much greater than exists today. Combine that with detailed readings showing the drift rates of continents occurring today, and you can see that the Growing Earth theory is junk science at its worst.

[HumanityWins]

@zed474

how does you supreme science explain continents crossing mid-ocean ridges? lmao...

[okuma0kuma]

this back in time were they thought the oceans moved the land befor they realized that larva created the continents which validates that the earth did in fact expand like bread in an oven

[itsdelaney16]

@okuma0kuma

growth is a process of our growing centripetal forces at the earths core due to our rotation. As the earth spins the plasma is forced away from the core with an equal force called centrifugal force. The fact that earth continues to rotate and the moon pulls on the earth as it orbits increases the size of the iron core with time and in doing so forces the plasmas further from the core...This is physics and not my imagination at work.

[okuma0kuma]

@itsdelaney16 exactly like bread dough in a microwave oven lol

[JudgeJulieLit]

@itsdelaney16 "[O]ur growing centripetal forces at the earth's core ... " -- with Earth's "increases ... [in] size of the iron core with time": these increase Earth's gravity, right?

[JudgeJulieLit]

@okuma0kuma *larva (infant, vermiform insects)-- You mean "lava," the molten efflux from volcanoes.

[okuma0kuma]

@JudgeJulieLit cooled molten magma and several million years of build up of bacterial matter ^ ^

[DaMatta11]

But why the only continent would break apart? couldn't it only drift all together?

This theory is all wrong, the continents aren't moving and never have moved, is the earth surface is expanding by the magma that flows to surface(sea bed) and solidifies, if you want to know the truth try to find some information about the growing Earth theory, that is the most reasonable way to explain the fossiles of shells in high places and deserts and the diferent ages of sea bed and land.

[costa200]

"the continents aren't moving and never have moved". LoL... not only do they move but they can be measured on their movement.

"that is the most reasonable way to explain the fossiles of shells in high places and deserts and the diferent ages of sea bed and land. "

Oh, right... please explain how earth expanding leads to contraction forces necessary to explain mountain ranges and the distribution of vulcanoes and sismic activity...

[Entrayalicious]

@costa200 To the first part. Theres somewhere on an island, i think its Iceland, where the island is slowly torn apart. Theres a gasp, about 1 meter thick

[costa200]

@Entrayalicious Icelan is placed right on the top of a Plate generating Rift. That's your gap, which doesn't explain how mountain ranges can be formed in an expanding earth. Do balloons wrinkle when expanding?

[davidgran1967]

i think scientist will be the last to admit to the grate theory of the growing earth or expanding earth they have been conditioned to be wright even if there not

just think of all the books they would have to change

[davidgran1967]

This is bull look up expanding earth theory

[GJacksonT]

Sir, You've certainly got more faith to believe this fantasy than I do.

Please explain what force of nature acted upon the North American continent beginning at 3:15 to cause it to attain it's current physical shape?

In addition, your graphic implies that the seperation of the continents was accomplished simply by "floating around" - Did you forget that there a seabed under those continents that has to move also?

Lastly, please explain why the continents broke apart and moved. Why?

[Sappharos]

I agree that the animation appears very unrealistic. As you say, the outline of North America could not have undergone such sudden change.

Instead it buckled gradually as a result of the continental shift. Note that small changes in elevation may result in dramatic changes in the coastline.

Anyway, rest assured that the overall theory is correct. It forms part of the basis for our modern understanding of geology.

[Sappharos]

In response to the second part of your comment:

No-one stated that the continents are floating around in the ocean; instead, the ocean lies around them and upon the seabed.

The continents and seabed rest upon the Earth's mantle, and their motion is caused by convection currents within it.

[GJacksonT]

Sappharos - Thank you Matthew for the thought, time and effort that went into your answer. IMO so much of what is called "evolution science" is based on "could-a, might-be, should-a, probably, we think, etc, etc, speculation that someone like me, unskilled in the many facets of science gets confused. Im still waiting for someone to explain how the big bang happened. I still have many unanswered questions and very serious doubts about the experts explanations. Thanks again for your effort.

[Dracopol]

Your confusion is not a valid point of scientific argument against evolution. Start taking science classes and you'll be less confused.

What are you proposing INSTEAD? Jesus Christ the Whipper made everything? How detailed OR useable is THAT claim?

Also, old 70's films and animations may not be the best way to discuss a topic. A modern computer animation can handle many more details at once, store more information about the continents and their changes as they moved, etc.

[Dracopol]

...Seabeds do not have to move. One plate slides UNDER another, which is called subduction, and the rock re-melts into the Earth's mantle. On the plate on the other side, the force of the slow collision thrusts up mountains, lots of earthquakes and even vulcanism occurs on the opposite side of a subducted plate.  This is supported by the fact that NO seabed in the world is rock older than 175 million years. There is very old land, however, like the Canadian Shield (3 billion yrs.)

[JudgeJulieLit]

@Dracopol "NO seabed in the world is rock older than 175 million years. There is very old land, however, like the Canadian Shield (3 billion yrs.)." Fascinating facts. Thank you!