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Originally Posted by Sparrow
I hope that eventually there won't be any countries, and the world will be united - the idea of the UK still existing in a thousand year's time is depressing, it'd indicate a lack of progress by humanity imho.
If nothing else, continental drift will jumble the map and make it unrecognisable.
Countries as geological entities are fleeting; and while patriotism has its appeal, it also seems a bit short-sighted to me.
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A slight order of magnitude error. For example,
Africa is drifting towards Europe at about 0.02m/year. That means it'll take about 750,000 years for the Mediterranean to be cut off from the Atlantic.
Quite a short time in terms of Earth's history, but rather a long time in terms of recorded human history. Humans will jumble (or possibly unite) the nations of the world much more than 100 times faster than continental drift can mange it.
