• expatriado@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    i think during Pangea, the center of the land was a big ass desert, and a very dry one, the network would probably look like a doughnut

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      11 hours ago

      Oh I just saw the answer to this in the new Dinosaurs doc on Netflix, assuming it’s accuracy. At the beginning of Pangea the center was a desert with only the edges having any plant life, then there was a geologic event I think a large number of super volcanoes that caused a climate shift and there was a million years of hurricanes, when the storms finally subsided Pangea was green all over

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      13 hours ago

      That empty land would allow for some nice desert crossings. Empty land is easier to develop and you can go faster.

      I’m imagine a donut with at least 2 dessert lines but maybe more. Likely a terminal town would appear in the center of the continent to be used for transfers