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by ramesh on Oct 30, 2007 05:19 PM   Permalink | Hide replies

This is in response to someone who asked how could the reason for the extinction of dinosaurs be different in each continent.
65 million years ago,the whole world was one single continent called pangea.
As time passed,the land masses drifted apart from each other to create the different continents as we know them today.
The continents are still drifting away as we speak and in millions of years time the continents will again collide with each other to create another single land mass.

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by R Sinha on Oct 30, 2007 05:47 PM   Permalink
What makes you think they would collide again. As they are drifting away, they would continue to drift. All continents would further be broken down and India too will have North india and South india with Bihar in no mans land (in between the two) and neither the north nor south would want to accept any responsibilty for it. Its highly unlikely that they would collide and form a single mass. They would disintegrate and get submerged in a billion years from now. Hope to see you sinking then.


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