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[–] xkbx@startrek.website 202 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Man in a few million years that tweet is gonna look hella dumb

[–] troybot@piefed.social 21 points 1 month ago

New Pangea will just be one big mountain

[–] platypode@sh.itjust.works 175 points 1 month ago (6 children)

The Appalachians have been mountains longer than North America has been a continent

[–] gigastasio@sh.itjust.works 124 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 38 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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?

[–] DoubleDongle@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago (8 children)

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.

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[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago

And through it all, the mountains can all agree.......trump is the biggest piece of shit they've ever heard of.

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And as old as that is, sharks are older than the mountains.

[–] rockerface@lemmy.cafe 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

[–] g0d0fm15ch13f@lemmy.world 38 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They're older than Saturn's rings

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[–] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They're the bones of the world dawg. It's why there's so much spooky scary shit here (I live in Appalachia.)

[–] Spitefire@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not just the bones of the world, they're older than bones.

[–] sudoshakes@reddthat.com 34 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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.

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[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 74 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Its not the height, it's the age. Thar be eldritch monsters in the Appalachians. Rockies is just aliens and (Gay) Bigfoot

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 44 points 1 month ago

The Appalachians are older than trees and bones and exist across three continents.

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[–] garth@sh.itjust.works 65 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Western trails: Ascend on nicely-graded switchbacks.

Eastern trails: Ascend straight up a seasonal creek bed.

[–] mbp@slrpnk.net 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

That's actually incredibly real

I about died on old butt knob in NC at my peak fitness

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[–] tutter@lemmy.blahaj.zone 47 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (8 children)

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! 😎

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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 43 points 1 month ago (6 children)

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.

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[–] Z745812939054@lemmy.zip 43 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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

[–] bizarroland@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago (4 children)

What if it's a titty fight, but nobody wants to say the word titty?

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[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 41 points 1 month ago (5 children)

They're both gorgeous. Why do we have to pit two queens against one another?

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago (5 children)

The thing about mountains is that they're all big when you're at the bottom of them

[–] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago

Mountains get so big because they have no natural predators.

  • Ken M.
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[–] content_educator_94@thelemmy.club 29 points 1 month ago (5 children)

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.

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

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 ❤️)

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[–] Dr_Fetus_Jackson@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Nah, this is more fun to jack off to. Speaking of, have y'all heard how terrible the Cali Burritos are out east?

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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 27 points 1 month ago (2 children)

whatever you do, just don't live down there

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[–] Zink@programming.dev 19 points 1 month ago

Sometimes it's not the moutains that get you, it's the smaller hills and valleys surrounding them because there are actually people and roads there.

Sometimes if you make a wrong turn in Pittsburgh, you are not just going the wrong direction but are also at the wrong elevation or on the wrong layer, and there's no looping around the block to get back to where you started.

Disclaimer: This thread led me to read the Wikipedia article about Appalachia. Some definitions of the region do not include Pittsburgh or even parts of Pennsylvania, but at the same time there's a photo of downtown Pittsburgh at the top of the article, so I went with it.

[–] Fluffy_Ruffs@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The highest wind speed ever recorded on Earth until 1996 was on Mt. Washington, NH. That's gotta count for some cool points.

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[–] DonorTissue@lemmy.today 17 points 1 month ago (4 children)

The geographical feature that you have no control over is for losers.

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[–] greedytacothief@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 month ago (10 children)

It's true, got no mountains here. Go vacation somewhere else.

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[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 1 month ago (5 children)

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.

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[–] PlaidBaron@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

The Nepalese: Oh you Americans are so cute.

[–] redditmodssucks@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

Ours are older and were taller.

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