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Show HN: Today's cities on a globe of Earth's tectonic past and future (douwe.com)
w10-1 10 hours ago [-]
Very nicely done. Plate coloring helped, as did the red highlights for plates pressuring each other.

New for me: I didn't realize eastern russia was at the north pole 220 Mya, and rotated and came south; at the same time, no real China, and India was at the South pole. America's, Africa, Australia didn't change much, but huge changes elsewhere.

akiselev 12 hours ago [-]
This is really cool!

I'm wondering what data you're using and if you can impose a more precise coordinate system into the visualizations with ways to track a specific point (perhaps starting from polygons or GPS coordinates). It seems the visualization includes sea level rise but it's hard to figure out if its getting other details right like the California’s Transverse Ranges uplift (~20 mYa to present) which moved the Los Angeles basin several hundred kilometers northwest all while San Diego and Baja California were also rearranged.

1over137 12 hours ago [-]
Is the triangle ‘play’ button supposed to do something? Maybe hug of death going on?
kristianc 11 hours ago [-]
It feels like I might need 130 million years to watch the whole thing play out
Razengan 10 hours ago [-]
Oh well, I didn't have anything planned
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