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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I'll start. I watched every minute of Francis Ford Coppola's "Megalopolis".

Just finished... it made me think of this topic.

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[–] EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (11 children)

Waaaaay back in college (this was over a decade ago), I wrote a 16-page paper making the argument that there were only four continents, not five, six, or seven as various countries proclaim:

The Cliff Notes:

North America and South America can be still considered a single continent due to the fact that the Panama Canal doesn't fully bisect the two landmasses. (The Isthmus of Panama is still very much wild rainforest and lakes, and the canal is essentially two points on each side connected by a boat route across multiple of these lakes).

So, #1: America (alt. the Americas)

Europe and Asia are not actually bisected into two landmasses, and if anything any physical connection is reinforced by the fact that the boundary is the Ural Mountain range.

So, #2: Eurasia

Prior to the construction of the Suez Canal in 1869, Europe and Africa were indeed the same landmass, connected by the Isthmus of Suez. However, as the Suez Canal is a sea-level canal, it is created by literally cutting the landmasses apart down to relative sea levels.

So, #3: Africa

Australia.........Yeah, I didn't see any reason why it should lose its status as the world's biggest island and smallest continent.

So, #4: Australia

Antarctica I didn't consider a continent because it's mostly ice, and if Australia is considered the minimum bound for how big a "continent" should be, then, well, the portion of Antarctica that is actually ground below all that ice is actually a smaller contiguous size than Australia, ergo it cannot count as a continent.

'Course now I'm older and realize that was all bullshit. Lol. Sure it makes sense from a geological standpoint (but even that is bullshit as geologically there are no "continents", only plates), but a continent is more than its geological structure; it's geological, political, and economic, all three of these rolled into one.

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[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 months ago (8 children)

I once come up with a theory that everyone sees their feet the same size.

Because if they're large you're tall and further from them, and if they're small you're short and closer.

[–] erin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I've used a variant of melatonin for my online handle in various spaces, your name threw me off for a second. Was like, I'm pretty damn sure I'm not melatonin here.

[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

I am chronically sleepy, so I use it here and there.

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